This removed hate, fear and weakness from my life

What you are about to read are the very things that have helped me personally over the last several years of my life, and my sincere hope is that you too will find comfort and strength in something that has the power to change anything and everything.

We all find strength in many different ways, but the most powerful is in the written word. Several times in my life I was at the very bottom of the barrel of life and was driven to my knees more then I care to say and it was always something I heard, was told or even overheard someone talking within earshot. No matter how, something was read or said that helped me face my fears and demons for one more day.

Below are some of my most treasured quotes, sayings or words of encouragement and they could do for you what they have done for me:

Here is what I would do:

-When I would hear something that made me think and I'd write it down

-Read through it later until it sparked another thought.

-Read it over and over again, until I understood the meaning.

-Applied that one thought to an area of life that day.

-At bed time, think about the impact of that thought and action for that day.

Please enjoy!

James Wall      

 

 

SUCCESS STATEMENTS AND POSITIVE THOUGHTS

Never settle for crumbs; when you can have the bakery (I always thought that I would only be able to have the crumbs, but I have come to realize that, we do not have to settle for less than the very best we have to offer).

A man is literally what he thinks.

You got to start believing in yourself.

Life will give you what you fight for.

Life will give you whatever you’ll accept.

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

The ship’s captain can’t see his destination for fully 99% of his journey, but he knows what it is, where it is, and that he will reach it if he keeps doing certain things a certain way.

A man who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the man doing it.

The setting of goals, and strict adherence to them, will cause the window of opportunity to open in your life.

 Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

 There has never been a successful or creatively gifted person who hasn’t known failure, frustration, or tough times.  

 A man is great not because he hasn’t failed; a man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him.

 Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

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

 The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.

 Always take a job that is too big for you.

 Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.

Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier, than people with nine million dollars.

Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you’re too old to get the job.

It is said that the face is the window of the soul.

What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

Be like a postage stamp; stick to one thing until you get there.

Lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.

Every direction leads to an ultimate destination: our destiny.

The Success Formula: a) Decide what you want, b) Take action, c) Notice what’s working or not, d) Change your approach until you achieve what you want.

As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the “how” will reveal itself.

 I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

 Success truly is the result of good judgement, good judgement is the result of experience, and experience is often the result of bad judgement!

A man is great not because he hasn’t failed; a man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him.

There are three types of people in the world “there’s the wills, the won’ts, and the cant’s.

The first accomplish everything; the second oppose everything; the third fail in everything.”

If it is success you desire, failure is unavoidable.

Successful people often experience more failures than failures do.

One good failure can teach you more about success than four years at the best university.

Failing just might be the best thing that ever happens to you.

The great man shows his greatness by the way that he treats the little man.

Any failure will tell you that success is nothing but luck.

Virtue is not given by money, but from virtue comes money (Plato)

Life will turn out the way you see it turning out.

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll go where you’ve always gone and you’ll be what you’ve always been.

Less then 5% of the world’s population lives in the United States, we consume more than 50% of the world’s cocaine. Our national defense budget, which runs in the billions, is equaled by what we spend on alcohol alone.

Know that it’s your decisions, not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

Everything you and I do, we do either out of our need to avoid pain or our desire to gain pleasure.

Actually, the more you've accomplished in the eyes of others, the less support you may receive for your entrepreneurial venture. If you were a good student and a good all around person, people are apt to encourage you to be a lawyer, a doctor, or an accountant and not a pet storeowner or a house painter.

On the other hand, if you were a complete disappointment to everyone and were considered a loser, then other people are going to look for anything positive in you. If you said to them that you intended to straighten yourself out and open a pet shop or paint houses, they'd probably be very encouraging and say that either choice was an excellent idea.

There is an old story about a glass filled to the midpoint. An optimist sees it as being half full. The pessimist thinks that it's half-empty.

An entrepreneur is probably going to look at the odds for small business success from a more optimistic view "the glass is half full" perspective. "What you really mean to say is that 45% of new small businesses are successful after the first year."

Through your effort you create something of value and then, when someone else buys that item of value, you "make money." Take a wood carver, for example. She takes a meaningless block of wood, and through her personal value added creates a beautiful work of art. However, the actual making of money occurs when someone else buys this new valuable work of art.

Once you know "Someone else has to have money before you can make money" and "Someone else has to spend that money before you can make that money," you can begin looking for someone with money, spending money.

Example is the best means to instruct or inspire others. The man who shows them as well as tells them is the one who gets the most of his subordinates.

You're much more likely to succeed if your purpose is to do something useful to humanity and become a millionaire doing it, rather than if your purpose is just making a million. In other words, service to humanity should come first and making a million second. (J. Paul Getty, put humanity first and making a million second. It seemed to work for him - he became the richest man in the world!)

Pretend everyone is wearing a sign that says, 'Make me feel important' and you'll do fine.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions, all of life is an experiment.

The willingness to do creates the ability to do.

Do or do not; There is no try.

If you say you can’t do it, the world will believe you; if you say you can do it, the world will await the proof.

FEAR- false evidence appearing real.

If you want a thing to be done, go; if not, send.

The Best Executive is the one who has enough sense to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self- restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

True excellence in businesses eludes some simply because they fail to understand a very important truth.  Bringing the best out in people is key to great leadership.  Simply directing people won't bring about true excellence.

One of the greatest challenges for many highly motivated and capable Business leaders is the temptation to try, or think it necessary, to do "it" themselves.  Too Often, would be leaders attempt to take on tasks someone else may be better equipped or in a better position to accomplish.

Looking for ways to avoid work is not the way to generate profit.  This can become a distraction that will keep you from real success. 

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

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.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.

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

The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - men who are creative, inventive and discoverers.

 

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe?

There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress.

 

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

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

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

 

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

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.

When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow--to the end at all costs.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem

Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.

One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

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.

 

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.

My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinly lend ourselves to others.

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.

 

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

 

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

 

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

 

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.

 

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

 

The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.

 

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

 

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.

 

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.

 

Success is the child of audacity.

 

To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

 

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

 

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

 

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

 

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

 

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

 

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

 

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, Certainly I can! - and get busy and find out how to do it.

 

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

 

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

 

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

 

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

 

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

 

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

 

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.

 

Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

 

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

 

If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

 

If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

 

Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.

 

If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

 

Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.

 

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

 

It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.

 

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

 

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

 

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.

 

He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.

Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.

 

Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.

 

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.

 

The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

 

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

 

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

 

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

 

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

 

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

 

If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.

 

There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

 

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

 

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

 

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.

 

Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.

 

Success isn't necessarily permanent - but neither is failure.

 

The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

 

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

 

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simply, really. Double your rate of failure... You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... You can be discouraged by failure -- or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side of failure.

 

If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded and has a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

 

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

 

You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.

 

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

 

The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

 

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. .  God, Nature, the wise, the world, preacher man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

 

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

 

We know what we are, but not what we may be.

 

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

Before a man can wake up and find himself famous he has to wake up and find himself.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable titles the character of an "Honest Man.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. 

To be prepared for war is one of most effectual means of preserving peace.

The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.  Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquoent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there be man so wise as themselves.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

 

It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts.  Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge

 

"Genius is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration" - Thomas A. Edison

 

Eat a different breakfast cereal. Take a different route to work. Get out of your office. When was the last time something inspiring or clever happened there? Nurture peripheral vision. The interesting "stuff" usually is going on beyond the margins of the professional's ever-narrowing line-of-sight. Don't "help". Let the people who work for you slip, trip, fall - and grow and learn on their own. Avoid moderation in all things. "Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess"

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do. – Rommel

The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemy: to chase him before you; to see his cities reduced to ashes; to rob him of his wealth; to see those dear to him bathed in tears; to clasp to your bosom his wives and daughters. - Ghengis Khan, 1226.

" Circumstances are only excuses for failures!!" " Don't let an old negative person Creep into your body." " You cannot be walked upon unless you are lying on the floor!!"   " Never deprive someone of hope. It may be all he/she has." --- Author unknown --- " Worry is like a rocking chair; It gives you something to do, But doesn't get you anywhere."  " Make the best of your youth, For we get older every minute And soon it will be gone."  " Credulous hope supports our life And always says that tomorrow will be better." ---Tibullus ---  " Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, Not because they never found it, But because they didn't stop to enjoy it." --- William Feather ---   " Bloom where you are planted."  " Ones true wealth is in the good one does in the world."  " To be able to experience any kind of success, You must first be willing to fail."  " One only has to view the fiery sunset into the ocean; Feel the cottony soft sand beneath your feet; Hear the rhythmic ocean waves breaking on the beach; Witness the full golden moon being overtaken in the west, As the sun rises in the stillness of the eastern sky; To appreciate and give thanks for the beauty of nature That blesses our lives and renews the spirit within us."  " Did you ever notive that people, Who once seemed so big, And took up so much psychological space, Seem to shrink as we feel more secure?"  " When the heart weeps for what it has lost, The spirit rejoices for what it has found."  " If you have no dreams, then you have no life; For someone else is living it for you."  " The contacts you establish in life, can at times open doors for you. If you use your knowledge and your ability to know where that knowledge can be the most beneficial to you and your contacts, then you will succeed. You could have several PhD's or know all the right bankers, but if you don't use them you will accomplish nothing. Only you can make yourself succeed."  " If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, He isn't fit to live." --- Martin Luther King ---  " If you think it's too late,then it probably is. If you think it's not too late,then it's definitely not!"  " Don't lose heart or lose the thread Of what you are trying to achieve."  " The bitterest tears shed over graves Are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." --- Harriet Beecher Stowe ---  " We get frozen in our old visions of ourselves, Which means that we can only be what we've been; We don't notice that we are changing." --- Alene H. Moris ---  " If you want you children to turn out well, Spend twice as much time with them And half as much money." " One can never consent to creep When one feels an impulse to soar. " --- Helen Keller --- " What I had I gave, What I kept was lost forever." " A life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation, Combined with action." --- M.Scott Peck  Conscience " Conscience is the inner voice that warns us That someone might be looking." --- H.L. Mencken ---  " Be the friend that you want to have."  " If you thought about someone As much as they thought about you, Where would you be? WITH THEM......."  " Our life is what our thoughts make it." --- Marcus Aurelius Antonius  " A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice."  THE STARFISH " One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a figure in the distance. As he got closer he realized the figure was that of a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, "What are you doing?" The youth replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean. The sun is up and the tide is going out. If don't throw them in, they will die." "Son," the man said, "Don't you realize There are miles and miles of beach and hundreds of starfish? You can 't possibly make a difference!" After listening politely, the boy bent down, Picked up another starfish, And threw it into the surf. Then smiling at the man, he said, I MADE A DIFFERENCE FOR THAT ONE!" " 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." --- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ---  At Day's End " Is anybody happier because you passed his way? Does anyone remember that you spoke to him today? The day is almost over, and its toiling time is through; Is there anyone to utter now a kindly word of you? Can you say tonight, in parting with the day that's slipping fast, That you helped a single brother of the many that you passed? Is a single heart rejoicing over what you did or said; Does the man whose hopes were fading, Now with courage look ahead? Did you waste the day, or lose it? Was it well or sorely spent? Did you leave a trail of kindness, or a scar of discontent? As you close your eyes in slumber, do You think that God will say, You have earned one more tomorrow by the work you did today?" --- John Hall ---  " The larger the mistake The greater the probability of success on the next attempt!"  " The things that really count in life Are not those one can hold in the hand, But those one cherishes in the heart."  " Lo que queremos, es verdaderamente lo que queremos." English translation: "What we want, is really what we want."  " My grandfather said that there were two kinds of people; Those who did the work and those who took the credit. He said I should always try to be in the first group, Because there was much less competition." --- Indira Gandhi ---  " The last thing we learn is the effect we've had on others."  " Only he who gives of himself FREELY is truly PRICELESS."  " I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail. " --- Muriel Strode  " Make your life worth living. The very worst experience anyone can have is to sit on that rocking chair watching the sunset with nothing but regrets to think about."  " If you see someone without a smile give them one of yours."  " My ships come in over calm seas." --- Florence Scovel-Shinn ---  " Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, Wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; There is no such thing as bad weather, Only different kinds of good weather." --- John Ruskin  " Sticks and stones will break our bones, But unkind words will break our heart."  " Take a 20 second time out in the morning and in the afternoon. You have earned it!"  " Self-doubt can create a downward spiral That can lead to self-destruction. Avoid self-doubt at all costs!"  " A friend is someone who can sing the song of your heart when you've forgotten it."  " An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure." --- From the movie 'Steel Magnolias' ---  " Touch another, not because you want something back but because you want to see them be built up."  " A phony smile will never replace honest integrity."  " To escape criticism, Do nothing, Say nothing, Be nothing."   " You can if you think you can." --- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale --- " It takes 72 muscles to frown and only 14 to smile!" " You will never know everything, Because once you do, You'll never realize it." " When there is a crisis, one must stick to reforms." " Have a heart that never hardens, And a temper that never tires, And a touch that never hurts." --- Charles Dickens ---  " You can be thirty years old or seventy years young. Decide in your favor."  " A half truth is a whole lie."  " If you have a problem and it has a solution, Then don't worry about it because it will be solved. If the problem doesn't have a solution, Then it can't be fixed so why worry about it."  " A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!"  " It is not the horse that draws the cart, it is the oats." --- Russian Proverb ---

" As I climb the mountain of life, the only barrier that I face, is myself."   " A happy face makes the heart cheerful, But heartache crushes the spirit." --- Proverbs 15:13 --- Contributed by Doris Rodriguez   " And castles, made of sand, fall in the sea....eventually." --- Jimi Hendrix --- " So think as if your every thought Were to be etched in fire upon the sky For all and everything to see, For so in truth, it is." --- Book of Madrid --- " We want it, we don't get it. We get it, we don't want it. " " If life knocks you flat on your back, open your eyes: Above you are the stars." --- Guy Finley --- " Success isn't measured by heights attained, But by obstacles overcome." --- Back of a shirt sold to raise money for a climb of Aconcagua " It takes a letter to get a letter." " If size was all that matters, How come the whale is endangered And the ant continues to do just fine?" " Isn't it ironic that when you are so caught up in life, you don't see it."   " Every problem is the resultant of a leadership failure."   " Your heart is free - have the courage to follow it." --- By William Wallace in the movie Braveheart " A teacher affects eternity; He can never tell where his influence stops." --- The education of Henry Adams (1907) ch.20 " For each time you smile you will find it is true somebody, somewhere will smile back at you" --- Helen Steiner Rice --- " Never judge a work of art by its defects." --- Washington Allsworth --- " Dreams are the blueprint of your destiny." " Go as far as you can see, Once you get there you can see farther" " When you are at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on!" --- FDR --- " Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels." --- Faith Whittlesey --- " Give some people an inch and they think they are rulers."   " Debt is only a lifetime. Why worry?" " To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." " Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times. There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell; and with these in mind I say... Climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are not without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think...what may be the end."   ( On Love ) " My mind tells me to give up, but my heart will not let me." " Everything is good...as long as it is unpossessed." " Neither will the wave which has passed be called back; Nor can the hour which has gone by return." --- Ovid (B.C. 43-18 A.D.) --- " The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The person who makes no mistakes lacks boldness And the spirit of adventure. They are the ones who never try anything. They are the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said they make no mistakes, Because their biggest mistake is the very fact they try nothing, And do nothing, Except criticize those who do things." --- General Shoup, USMC on criticism " Accept that some days you are the pigeon, And some days you are the statue." " I created you while I was happy, while I was sad; With so many incidents, so many details. And for me, The whole of you has been transformed into feeling." --- Constantine Peter Cavafy - "In the same space" (1929) " Time is the greatest teacher. Unfortunately it kills all of its pupils." --- Hector Berlioz --- " The search of happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness." --- Eric Hoffer --- " Some people speak from experience. Others, from experience, don't speak." " A tiger hunts best when it's hungry." --- Picabo Street, Super G Gold Medal Winner, 1998 Winter Olympics   " A Master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between their work and their play, their labour and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation. They hardly know which is which. They simply pursue their vision of excellence through whatever they are doing and leave others to determine whether they are working or playing. To themselves, they always seem to be doing both." " Being truthful is for self; Only you have to answer to God." " The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." --- Malcolm X ---   " There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it." --- Edith Wharton --- " Every man I have ever met is in someway my superior." " I have a responsibility to be a role model, Not because I am an athlete, But because I am a human being. We all have a sphere of influence And you don't have to be a professional athlete To make a difference in someone's life."-MaliVai Washington " Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one's own sunshine."- Ralph Waldo Emerson " An oyster converts the irritation of a pinch of salt, Into a beautiful pearl ... Nature is our silent teacher." " Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live." " Men who never forgive women their little faults, Will never enjoy their great virtues." " The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands." --- Alexandra Penney --- " You can pick up all the glass... but you can't remake the window." " Your reality is uniquely yours." " Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills." " Isn't it a shame of all the marvelous hopes and dreams, that never came true, because those who dreamed those dreams were afraid of the laughter of others." " The head learns new things, but the heart forevermore practices old experiences." " To operate a shovel, one must be smarter than the shovel." " Fear is the dark room where negatives are developed."   " Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." ” Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." --- Williard Marriot --- "The silence of the envious is too noisy." "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?" "A good marriage is not simply the result of finding the right person; but rather it is the result of being the right person." "If you look for the bad in mankind, you will surely find it." --- From the movie, Pollyana, --- "I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery, than live in a world so small, my mind could comprehend it." --- Henry Emerson Fosdick ---  "Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."- Mark Twain  "Veritas: The purpose in seeking truth, is liberation."  "Endurance allows us to get where we're going. Higher the goal, longer and more ardous the path. More endurance we can muster, more we can achieve. Many things we can change, and some things we must endure. We grow by our endurance. Strength comes from adversity."  "With science and money,people build their glory. No glory was ever built on ignorance and poverty." --- An Arab Poet ---  "The dignity of truth is lost in much protesting." --- Ben Johnson ---  "Kind words may be short and easy to speak, but the echos are truly endless." -Mother Teresa

 "How many times have I stepped out on faith, and then stepped in mess, because the step of faith was a big tough step up, and the mess was an easy step down." --- Excerpted from 'What Is It Called?'  "When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, it becomes less and less that I am afraid.." --- Audre Lorde ---  "The friendship that can cease has never been real." --- St. Jerome --- "Don't bore your friends with your troubles, tell them to your enemies who will be delighted to hear about them." - Olin Miller  " He drew a circle that shut me out heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had the wit to win, we drew a circle that took him in." --- Edwin Markham, Outwitted ---  "While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior." --- Henry C. Link ---  "Freedom, rights, liberation; call it what you will, it has never been just given to anyone. It has been taken, achieved, or created, but never just given."  "It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused." --- Marcel Proust ---  "The flower which is single, need not envy the thorns that are numerous."- Rabindranath Tagore
 "If you look too hard for a complex answer, you won't find it. Everything is simple. We just make it out to be difficult."  "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm." --- Henry David Thoreau ---  "Taxes could be worse. Suppose we had to pay what we think we are worth."  " Earth is crammed with heaven." --- Elizabeth Barrett Browning ---  "Sometimes, if we're lucky, an eraser will do the trick, and we can rub it across the page, wipe away the dust, and all that's left of our careless mess is a hardly noticeable smudge. One of the toughest lessons to learn is that life doesn't come with erasers. You can't make something that has happened, not happen." --- Ina Hughs ---  "Take up a cup of coffee, relax and think about things. Things other than that which troubles you. Quite often, through this method, problems find their own solutions."  "The greater the struggle, the greater the victory."  "Friendship is a very beautiful gift to have, but unless a person is friends with himself, friends will be hard to find - yet harder to keep. "  "Pain and suffering is inevitable, being miserable is optional." --- Art Clanin ---  "A child without courage is like a night without stars." --- Punjab from the movie Annie ---  "Do not look back and do not dream about the future. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward--your destiny-- is in the present moment." --- Dag Hammarskjold ---  "The most wasted of days are the ones without laughter."  "Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others."  "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."  "Energy isn't everything, it's all there is."  "A person without problems is like a man without a brain."  "Attitudes are contagious. Is yours worth catching?"  "The world belongs to those who Dream Boldly, Care Deeply, And Work Diligently."  "Obstacles are those fearful things you see when you take you eyes off of your goal." --- Henry Ford ---  "The Love I have for people far outweighs the hate I have for their actions."  "If you continue to think the way you have always thought, you'll continue to get what you've always got. Is it enough?" --- Paul Meyer ---  "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." --- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross ---  "It is never too late to be what you might have become."- George Eliot  "Adolescence is the time in life when girls quit believing in fairy tales, and start to believe in love."  "The test of courage comes when we are in the minority."  "Knowledge is the antidote to fear." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson ---  " Every morning in africa a gazelle wakes up and knows it must out run the fastest lion or it will be killed... Every morning in africa a lion wakes up and knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve... So it does not matter if you are a lion or a gazelle when the sun comes up you had better be running!!!"  "Too often we love things and use people, when we should be loving people and using things. " --- contributed by James Sweeney  "Loving is not just caring deeply, it's, above all, understanding."  " It is more blessed to give than to receive." --- Acts 20:35 ---  "This is a day of unconditional loving. My heart sings. God has lifted all burdens from my shoulders."  "They say a person needs 3 things to be truly happy in this world, someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for." --- Tom Bodett ---  "It does not have to glitter to be gold." --- Arthur Ashe ---  " I do not pray For a lighter load But for a stronger back." --- Phillips ---  "How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong, because someday in your life you will have been all of these." --- George Washington Carver ---  "Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. "  "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."  "You have to shovel a lot of coal until you find a diamond in the rough."  "Success is a reward in itself, but the greatest reward of success is knowing you achieved it with hard work and dedication."  " Visions, without action are hallucinations."  " It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."  "I Always knew I'd look back on the times I cried and laugh, but I never knew I'd look back on the times I laughed and cry."  "Every important achievment began with a dream in someone's Heart."  "What most people need to learn in life, is how to love people and use things, instead of using people and loving things."  "We do not understand Joy, until we have felt sorrow; Faith until we are tested; Peace, until we are faced with conflict; Trust, until we are betrayed; Love until it is lost; Hope, until we are faced with doubts."  "We cannot become what we need to become by remaining what we are."  "By meditation upon light and upon radiance, knowledge of the spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved."  "A spoken word is just like an acorn. When you sow it, it’s not much, but in fertile ground it becomes a sapling. Continue to fertilize this word, and it becomes a full grown beautiful oak tree. The words that you speak now WILL grow into a beautiful tree, OR a non-blooming, thorn infested, ugly plant. Note: the words spoken today take years to fully manifest. Which kind of words are you sowing today?" "If you had 1 month left to live, Who would you call? What would you say? and Why are you waiting?

 

The LIFE 101 Quote Book

CARING FOR YOURSELF

Also See SELF-HELP

I don't do anything that's bad for me. I don't like to be made nervous or angry. Any time you get upset it tears down your nervous system.

MAE WEST

MACBETH: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? DOCTOR: Therein the patient Must minister to himself.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

THOMAS BROWNE

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

THEODORE ISAAC RUBIN, M.D.

An occasional compliment is necessary, to keep up one's self-respect. When you cannot get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

MARK TWAIN

. . . to superintend the sick to make them well, to care for the healthy to keep them well, also to care for one's own self.

PART OF THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH

Be careful, and you will save many men from the sin of robbing you.

ED HOWE

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.

ALEX LEVINE

CHALLENGE

If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

ANONYMOUS

CHANCE

Life is like a game of whist, some time ago. From unseen sources the cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt.

EUGENE HARE

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

JOSH BILLINGS

CHANGE

You cannot step twice into the same river; for other waters are always flowing on to you.

HERACLITUS

Nothing endures but change.

HERACLITUS

Without deviation progress is not possible.

FRANK ZAPPA

CHARITY

Also See GIVING, GOOD DEEDS, SERVICE, PHILANTROPY

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

OSCAR WILDE

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

GEORGE SAND

Charity, as if it didn't have enough trouble in this day and age, will always be suspected of morbidity—sado-masochism, perversity of some sort. All higher or moral tendencies lie under suspicion of being rackets. Things we simply honor with old words, but betray or deny in our very nerves.

SAUL BELLOW

The Eight Grades of Charity:

1. To give reluctantly 2. To give cheerfully but not adequately 3. To give cheerfully and adequately, but only after being asked 4. To give cheerfully, adequately, and of your own free will, but to put it in the recipient's hand in such a way as to make him feel lesser 5. To let the recipient know who the donor is, but not the reverse 6. To know who is receiving your charity but remain anonymous to him 7. To have neither the donor nor the recipient be aware of the other's identity 8. To dispense with charity altogether, by enabling your fellow humans to have the wherewithal to earn their own living

MAIMONIDES

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

CHARLOTTE BRONT?

Don't use the impudence of a beggar as an excuse for not helping him.

RABBI SCHMELKE OF NICOLSBURG

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty; assist the reduced fellowman, either by a considerable gift, or a sum of money, or by teaching him a trade, or by putting him in the way of business, so that he may earn an honest livelihood, and not be forced to the dreadful alternative of holding out his hand for charity. This is the highest step and the summit of charity's golden ladder.

MAIMONIDES

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

1. S. BUCKMINSTER

The contents of Sitting Bull's pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

ANNIE OAKLEY

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

SITTING BULL

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven. HENRY WARD BEECHER

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said: Love One Another.

CONFUCIUS

Every good act is charity. Your smiling in your brother's face, is charity; an exhortation of your fellowman to virtuous deeds, is equal to alms-giving; your putting a wanderer in the right road, is charity; your assisting the blind, is charity; your removing stones, and thorns, and other obstructions from the road, is charity; your giving water to the thirsty, is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter, is the good he does in this world to his fellow-man. When he dies, people will say, "What property has he left behind him?" But the angels will ask, "What good deeds has he sent before him?"

MOHAMMED

Be charitable in your thoughts, in your speech and in your actions. Be charitable in your judgments, in your attitudes and in your prayers. Think charitably of your friends, your neighbors, your relatives and even your enemies. And if there be those whom you can help in a material way, do so in a quiet, friendly, neighborly way, as if it were the most common and everyday experience for you. Tongues of men and angels, gifts of prophecy and all mysteries and all knowledge are as nothing without charity.

CARDINAL HAYES

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

GERMAN PROVERB

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

THOMAS FULLER, M.D.

Charity begins at home, and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise.

ANONYMOUS

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

BOB HOPE

Charity is that which opens in each heart a little Heaven.

MATTHEW PRIOR

CHILDREN

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

ERMA BOMBECK

I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.

ROBERT ORBEN

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

SOCRATES

The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.

JOHN MILTON

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

OSCAR WILDE

Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul.

FRANCIS THOMPSON SHELLEY

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

Before I was married I had three theories about raising children. Now I have three children and no theories.

JOHN WILMOT, EARL OF ROCHESTER

BLANCHE: I'm reading this Spock book on baby care, and he says it's very important for a young child to have a male role model around during its formative years. Now what are we gonna do? . . . ROSE: Oh, Blanche, we don't have anything to worry about. If we give that baby love and attention and understanding, it'll turn out fine. DOROTHY: That's beautiful. ROSE: Besides, what does Spock know about raising babies? On Vulcan, all the kids are born in pods.

GOLDEN GIRLS

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift—our personal association, which means so much to them—we give grudgingly.

MARK TWAIN

I teach my child to look at life in a thoroughly materialistic fashion. If he escapes and becomes the sort of person I hope he will become, it will be because he sees through the hokum that I hand out.

1. B. WHITE

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

CHOICE

The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

VIKTOR FRANKL

More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

WOODY ALLEN

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

1. L. HUNT

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

EMMA GOLDMAN

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

TIMOTHY LEARY

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.

SIMONE WEIL

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

1. MATHEWS

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

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

LOUISE BEAL

Tell him to live by yes and no—yes to everything good, no to everything bad.

WILLIAM JAMES

I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not. You have to move on.

STEPHEN SONDHEIM

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

The way you activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you mobilize vast human energies and resources which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise.

ROBERT FRITZ

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will—he will be sure to repent it.

SOCRATES

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

MARCUS ANTONINUS

CIVILIZATION

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta . . . I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology . . . And I think we should remember we are part of a great whole, which for convenience we call nature. All living things are our brothers and sisters. Above all I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

KENNETH CLARK

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

COMFORT

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

CHARLES KINGSLEY

The point on the thermostat in which neither heating nor cooling must operate—around 72 degrees—is called "The Comfort Zone." It's also known as "The Dead Zone."

HEATING AIR CONDITIONING LORE

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed—or distressed the comfortable.

CLARE BOOTHE LUCE describing Eleanor Roosevelt

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

CONFUCIUS

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

CHARLES DICKENS

Quotations are comfortable.

THE AUTHOR

COMMITMENT

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

NATHANIEL EMMONS

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

MARCUS ANTONINUS

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.

NORMAN DOUGLAS

The best way to keep your word is not to give it.

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you. I want to have children . . ." -they leave skid marks.

RITA RUDNER

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

1. H. MURRAY THE SCOTTISH HIMALAYAN EXPEDITION

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

One person with belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

JOHN STUART MILL

COMMON SENSE

Common sense is not so common.

VOLTAIRE

COMMUNICATION

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

MARGARET MILLAR

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

FRAN LEBOWITZ

MOTHER: Do you love me, Albert? ALBERT: Yes. MOTHER: Yes—what? ALBERT: Yes, please.

TOM STOPPARD

"What Ho!" I said, "What Ho!" said Motty. "What Ho! What Ho!" "What Ho! What Ho! What Ho!" After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation.

1. G. WODEHOUSE

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

GRACIE ALLEN

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then a third time—a tremendous whack!

WINSTON CHURCHILL

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

ROBERT BENCHLEY

The journey of ten thousand miles begins with a single phone call.

CONFUCIUS BELL

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

CHARLES V

COMPASSION

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

THOMAS BROWNE

Spiritual energy brings compassion into the real world. With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

CHRISTINA BALDWIN

COMPETITION

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

HUGH DOWNS

Competition brings out the best in products, and the worst in people.

DAVID SARNOFF

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The first time I saw her perform she was so good I wanted to run up to the stage, put my arms around her—and wring her neck. She just has too much talent!

JUDY GARLAND describing Barbra Streisand

CONFORMITY

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

CONFRONTATION

Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can. A gentleman will walk but never run.

STING about Quentin Crisp

Now that the scriptures have been fulfilled, I shall proceed to beat the hell out of thee.

QUAKER after being slapped on one cheek, turning the other cheek, and being slapped again

If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

The best way out is always through.

ROBERT FROST

CONTENTMENT

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

LIN YUTANG

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

SOCRATES

Do not strain to seek increases. What you have, let it suffice you.

AMENEMOPE

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

SALVADOR DALI

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to see his happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

COOPERATION

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

EDMUND BURKE

COURAGE

 

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

ERICA JONG

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.

AMELIA EARHART

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

EDDIE RICKENBACKER

Be bold—and mighty forces will come to your aid.

BASIL KING

Courage is mastery of fear—not absence of fear.

MARK TWAIN

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

ANAIS NIN

CREATIVITY

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

1. K. CHESTERTON

Want to be a composer? If you can think design, you can execute design—it's only a bunch of air molecules, who's gonna check up on you? Just follow these simple instructions:

1. Declare your intention to create a "composition." 2. Start a piece at some time. 3. Cause something to happen over a period of time (it doesn't matter what happens in your "time hole"— we have critics to tell us whether it's any good or not, so we won't worry about that part). 4. End the piece at some time (or keep it going, telling the audience it is a "work in progress"). 5. Get a part-time job so you can continue to do stuff like this.

FRANK ZAPPA

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

ARTHUR KOESTLER

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

JOHN UPDIKE

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

CECIL B. DEMILLE

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

GEORGE LOIS

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

NORMAN PODHORETZ

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

1. EUGENE SMITH

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

CYNTHIA HEIMEL

CRITICISM

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

KINGSLEY AMIS

I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.

NO?L COWARD

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Do not fear when your enemies criticize you. Beware when they applaud.

VO DONG GIANG

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

ELBERT HUBBARD

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

FRANKLIN P. JONES

CURES

 

The music that can deepest reach, And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.

PETER MERE LATHAM

CURIOSITY

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

WALTER PATER

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

EDMUND BURKE

 

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" If you cannot get out of it, You may as well get into it." --- Popular in the U.S. Army --- Contributed by Lee Cichanowicz

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" Always see the best of a person, They may not be having a great day." --- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " You must love people and use money, Not love money and use people." --- Tom Luu, CEO , WMAS --- Contributed by Jim L.--- California

?  " No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement." --- Greg Henry Quinn --- Contributed by Brandi Nunnery

?  " People who are afraid to fail Can never experience the joys of success." --- Pete Zafra --- California

?  " Advice is like snow; The softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, And the deeper it sinks into the mind." --- Samuel Taylor Coleridge --- Contributed by Todd Wielgos

?  " Those who fear the thorns, cannot pick the roses." --- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Alfred Stuart Jr

?  " Procrastinaton is the seed of self destruction." --- Matthew Burton --- Idaho

?  " When you really want something, Go after it And make preperations as though it were already yours. Otherwise when it comes to you, You won't be ready for it!" --- Larry Bennett --- Author/OPW

?  " We teach some by what we say. We teach more by what we do. We teach most by what we are. " --- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Joyce Singleton

?  " Just remember, the attitude that you wake up with Determines the kind of day you will have." --- Krysta Oberg --- Kentucky

?  " If you mess up and learn nothing, It's a mistake. If you mess up and learn something, It's experience." --- Mark McFadden --- Maryland

?  " The harder you work, The luckier you get." --- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Rich --- Illinois

?  " Anger is the lamp which blows out the lamp of the mind." --- Christina Ochoa

?  " Authority does not make you a leader, It gives you the opportunity to be one." --- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Todd Wielgos

?  Decisions and Possibilities " The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise." --- Robert Fritz contributed by Gary Harrington --- Michigan

?  " We get other peoples' approval if we do right and try hard, But our own approval is worth a hundred times more!!!" ---- Sent by Jody C. Burnett --- California

?  " Your daily agenda must be goal driven. If not, all task driven agenda will perpetuate." --- Glenn Crider

?  " Yesterday's lessons and experiences must be used wisely today To create a better tomorrow." --- Pete Zafra --- California

?  " The desire to have things done quickly, Invariably prevents them from being done thoroughly." --- Sent by Jody C. Burnett --- California

?  " You can mold a mannerism, But you must chisel a character." --- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Todd Wielgos

?  " Success, will be determined by your powers, Not by those who try to influence you with theirs!!!" --- Sent by Jody C. Burnett --- California

?  " The important thing is not to stop questioning." --- Albert Einstein --- Contributed by Gary Harrington --- Michigan

?  " Using a spoon or a steam shovel is often less important a decision than digging in the right spot! " --- Glenn Crider

?  " Success is not to know the most about what you do, It is to do the most about what you don't know." --- Arthur Vergopoulos --- Sydney, Australia

?  " Whatever you can do or dream you can do, Begin it! Boldness has power, magic and genius in it. " --- Goethe --- Contributed by Jeff Moore --- Marlow, England, UK

?  " Never treat another as if they do not matter." --- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Be kind to your enemies, It will keep them confused." --- Sandy J.H. --- New Jersey

?  " Practice makes perfect, So be careful what you practice." --- W.E. Channing --- Contributed by The Mc Loughlins --- Ireland

?  " It's amazing what ordinary people can do; If they set out without preconceived notions." --- Charles F. Kettering --- Contributed by Gary Harrington --- Michigan

?  " Don't be afraid to go out on a limb; That's where you will find all of the fruit!" --- Author unknown --- Submitted by Jami Stone --- Nebraska

?  " I always thought there was at least one person in the stands Who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down. " --- Joe Dimaggio --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Walking away from situations You find emotionally upsetting Is not an admission of defeat, But a sign of wisdom." --- Sent by Jody C. Burnett --- California

?  " Only those who risk going too far Can possibly find out how far one can go." --- T.S. Eliot --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " I am enough of an artist To draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." --- Albert Einstein --- Contributed by Gary Harrington --- Michigan

?  " Don't mind criticism. If it's untrue, disregard it; If it's unfair, keep from irritation; If it's ignorant, smile; If it's justified, learn from it." --- Contributed by Jessica Guidobono --- British Columbia, Canada

?  " Players Win Games, Teams Win Championships." --- Bill Taylor --- Missouri

?  " I admire most those that have achieved much from little, Than those who have achieved much with more." --- John Pietrykowski

?  " Motivation is what gets you started Habit is what keeps you going!" --- Contributed by QA

?  " If you have faith in yourself and your abilities, You will immediately begin to feel that things are going your way!" --- Pete Zafra --- California

?  " Not everything that counts can be counted, And not everything that can be counted counts." --- (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton) --- Copyright: Kevin Harris 1995 (may be freely distributed with this acknowledgment) --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " If you think you can you can. If you think you can't you're right." Mary Kay Ash Chairman Emeritus, Mary Kay Cosmetics --- Contributed by Cindhi Herd --- California

?  " You can't steal second Iif you never take your foot off of first." --- Chris Rocca --- New York

?  " Everyone is a potential winner; Some people are disguised as losers; Don’t let their appearances fool you." --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Every job is self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence." --- Contributed by --- Jessica Guidobono --- British Columbia, Canada

?  " Feel the power of team work; If you know that a drop of water easily gets dried And a pool of water hardly gets dried." --- Brian Hu --- California

?  " Never think that any situation is too difficult for Truth to Triumph." --- From 'The Secret of Letting Go' --- Guy Finley --- Contributed by Cheryl Thomas

?  " A heavy hitter is nothing more than a little hitter that kept on hitting." --- Pete Zafra --- California

?  " Take not what is given, but what is justly earned." --- James Allen --- Contributed by Christine Lane

?  " A winner is a loser that was willing to fail and get up, fail and get up, fail and get up, fail and get up and win." --- Pete Zafra --- California

?  A Chinese Saying: " If you know yourself well, And know your enemy/competitor well, You will win the battle almost 100 percent." --- Brian Hu --- California

?  " Those who want to succeed will find a way, Those who don`t will find an excuse!" --- Leo Aguila

?  " Who you are are shouts so loudly in my ears, I cannot hear what you say." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson --- Contributed by Tony

?  " Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right." --- Submitted by Dan Kelly, Illinois and all his friends

?  " Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have Is a good way to waste what you need to get it." --- 'Freedom From the Ties That Bind.' --- Guy Finley --- Submitted by Cheryl Thomas

?  " We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, AND We spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature." --- Sandy J.H. --- New Jersey

?  " People say it's an overnight success. They never realize the countless sleepless nights, the years of frustration, the pain that had to be constantly endured, and the anxiety that had to be experienced for failing so many times until that success, that seemed to have happened overnight, is finally achieved!" --- Pete Zafra --- California

?  " Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there." --- Marcus Washling --- Contributed by Chris Wendelin --- Illinois

?  " If you're not the leader, the view never changes." --- Contributed by Kevin Rogers --- Georgia

?  " Leaders are like eagles, They don't come in flocks, They just show up every so often." --- Anonymous --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " The more I've thought about it over the years, the more I've concluded that what really leads to outstanding consultants, and I think then outstanding performance in almost anything you can think of, is the willingness to really take risks. Take risks with your thinking, to take risks in how far you're trying to push the client, and not to be conservative and too cautious.I had a conversation with a colleague recently who was learning how to ski.He said that, in the course of his ski week, he concluded that, if you weren't falling, you weren't learning, and I think that's, you know, a general rule of life. You've got to take risks and be willing to fail." --- Fred Gluck, Managing Director, McKinsey & Co. --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Life is like water. Cow drinks water and makes milk. Snake drinks water and makes poison." --- Grandmaster Wonik Yi --- Contributed by Kelly K. Marshall --- Tennis Pro

?  " Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind." --- Henry James --- Contributed by The Mc Loughlins --- Ireland

?  " You can't stay mad at someone that makes you laugh." --- Jay Leno --- contributed by Sandy J. H. --- New Jersey

?  " A wise man should have money in his hand, but not in his heart." --- Jonathan Swift --- Contributed by The Mc Loughlins --- Ireland

?  " Hit the ball over the fence, and you can take your time going around the bases." --- J.W. Raper --- contributed by Junior -- Pennsylvania

?  " For an ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value, without some sacrifice to it. Something given up, something not taken, something not gained. We do it in exchange for a greater good, for something worth more than just money and power and position. The great paradox of this philosophy is that in the end it brings one greater gain than any other philosophy." --- Jerry Kohlberg --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Change is 'rut prevention'." --- Peg Wood

?  " Feedback is the breakfast of champions." --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Effective managers manage themselves and the people they work with so that both the organization and the people profit from their presence." --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " People who feel good about themselves produce good results." --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Only after we open our eyes to a new idea, can we truly hear." --- Bob Martinelli --- Rhode Island

?  " Do or do not, there is no try." --- Yoda (StarWars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi.) --- Contributed by Lois Hoffmann

?  " God gives every bird food, but he doesn't put it in the nest." --- Submitted by Kelly Marshall --- Tennis pro

?  " Criticism is the fruit of a self-appointed judge, And it usually is rotten." --- Peg Wood

?  " Great people are created by great mistakes that are learned from, Not from great successes that are gloated upon." --- Elmer Clark

?  " A leader is someone who can assume responsibility For his sphere of influence." --- L. Ron Hubbard --- Contributed by Ron Baginski --- Ohio

?  "I'm a firm believer in luck, and I've found the harder I work, the luckier I get." --- Thomas Jefferson --- Contributed by Jami Stone ---Nebraska

?  "Procrastination is the thief of time" --- Edward Young 1683-1765 --- Contributed by Kanaka Ramiah

?  "Nobody ever drowned in sweat!" --- Submitted by Kelly Marshall --- Tennis Pro

?  " The most important thing in communication is hearing What isn't being said." --- Unknown --- Submitted by Sim Yee --- Malaysia

?  " Adventure is not in the guidebook and Beauty is not on the map. Seek and ye shall find." --- On the Loose --- Contributed by Quetico

?  " The only place you find success before work, is in a dictionary." --- Unknown --- Contributed by Matt Smith

?  " An army of sheep led by a lion Could easily defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.." --- Arab Proverb --- Contributed by Junior --- Pennsylvania

?  " We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him, Lived in his mild and magnificent eye, Learned his great language, caught his clear accents, Made him our pattern to live and to die!." --- Robert Browning "The Lost Leader" (1845) --- Submitted by Athena

?  " Lead by example, not by force.." --- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it." --- Winston Churchill --- Contributed by Q.A.

?  " The best minute I spend is the one I invest in people." --- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Even if you're on the right track, You'll get run over if you just sit there." --- Will Rogers --- contributed by Junior -- Pennsylvania

?  " Management that wants to change an institution, Must first show it loves that institution." --- John Tusa, 1936 --- Contributed by Kanaka Ramiah

?  " Let each day be your masterpiece." --- Author Unknown --- Contributed by Tania --- Moscow

?  " It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, But how many times you get up." --- Vince Lombardi --- Contributed by T. Clay Sanders

?  " THE FOUR TO ONE RULE For every criticism you make of someone's job performance, Make sure you give the person four compliments." --- Bob Ottaviani

?  " Opportunity is missed by most people, Because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --- Thomas Edison --- Contributed by Bill Hurley --- St. Johns, Newfoundland

?  " If I allow myself to be disturbed, I allow myself to fail." --- Unknown --- Contributed by Mark MacGregor

?  " Take a minute: Look at your goals. Look at your performance. See if your performance matches your goals." --- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " The grass may look greener on the other side... but it still needs to be mowed." --- Author Unknown --- Contributed by RJ Kautz

?  " On the Plains of Hesitation, Lie the blackened bones of the countless millions, Who at the dawn of victory, Sat down to rest, And resting died." --- Contributed by George

?  " The customer may not always be right, however, part of our duty is to let them think they are." --- Al Wellenreiter

?  " The player who knows how will usually draw. The player who knows why will usually win. Good players give their best in every match, Every game, every move. The master knows exactly the right moment to do nothing. The popular player loses without an alibi, Wins with grace, and draws with a smile." --- Tom Wiswell, quoted in Victor Niederhoffer, Education of a Speculator --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " There are only 2 rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know. 2.    " --- Contributed by Junior --- Pennsylvania

?  " We are not just our behavior, we are the person managing our behavior. Being honest with people eventually works. Goals begin behaviors. Consequences maintain behavior." --- Blanchard and Johnson --- Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Anger is pointless, get rid of it." --- Written/Submitted by Dan Kelly and all his friends --- Illinois

?  " Half the job is getting started The other half is completing it." --- Matthew Jay Butler

?  " The customer may not always be right, however, it's not our job to prove they are wrong." --- Al Wellenreiter

?  " The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary." --- Glen --- Massachusetts

?  " Buying cheap to save money is like stopping the clock to save time, Neither works. " --- Quote from Think and Grow Rich --- Submitted by Christine Lane

?  " Success is; knowing what your doing, loving what your doing, and believing what your doing. " --- Napoleon Hill --- Submitted by Christine Lane

?  " If you throw dirt you're bound to lose ground." --- Contributed by Kelly K. Marshall --- Tennis Pro

?  " The three A's to ultimate fulfillment: Acknowledge, Apply, Attain." --- Della Harbin

?  " Don't let what you can't do, stop you from doing what you can do." --- Contributed by Peggy Richard --- Louisiana

?  " A good way to judge a person is by how they treat someone who will not give them anything." --- Author unknown --- Contributed by Matthew Asher

?  " No man walks with dignity whose step is rushed." --- Anonymous --- Contributed by Kristi Wright

?  " Arrogance makes failure. Once you think you know the answer, it's almost always over." --- Millard Drexler, CEO of The GAP, Inc. --- Contributed by Elizabeth Donnelson

?  " Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, But the really great make you feel that you, too, are great." --- Mark Twain --- Contributed by Kristi Wright

?  " An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it." --- Contributed by Denise Polin

?  " Commitment, Determination, and Fearless Drive" --- from CBS on Saturn Commercial with the Winter Olympics --- Contributed by Dominic Reicks

?  " Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom." --- submitted by Amy Rossi --- Ohio

?  " Have faith in people. Believe in them, trust them and you will draw out the best in them. They will rise high to your expectations." --- Contributed by Kristi Wright

?  " Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try." --- Contributed by Amy Rossi, Ohio

?  " A ship should not sail on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope." --- Epictetus --- Sent by SuanLoyd

?  " I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more luck I have." --- Thomas Jefferson --- Contributed by Corky Akins

?  " Scientifically a bee is too fat to fly. It's not aerodynamic enough and it's wings are too short. But why does it still fly you ask? Because nobody told him he couldn't." --- Contributed by Q.A.

?  "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." --- John F. Kennedy --- Contributed by Corky Akins

?  "Do not follow where the path my lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." --- George Bernard Shaw --- Contributed by Q.A.

?  "Only the mediocre are always at their best." --- Jean Giraudoux --- Contributed by Hazel Dudley --- Australia

?  "The greatest enemy of excellence is good." --- Zig Ziglar's Top Performance --- Contributed by Terry Litwiller

?  "The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack." --- Contributed by Kristin

?  "Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning will take care of itself." --- Coach Paul (Bear) Bryant --- Contributed by Corky Akins

?  "What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in the middle does what he wants to do." --- Bob Dylan --- Contributed by Q.A.

?  "The man who goes alone can start today , But he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready." --- Contributed by Q.A.

?  "A winner never quits and a quitter never wins!" --- Author unknown --- Contributed by Michael Ismand

?  "You don't need to blow out another candle, To let your own candle shine." --- Contributed by Edward Rajaratnam

?  "Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." --- Mark Twain --- Submitted by Hubert Swann

?  "I don't know what my future holds, but I know who holds my future." --- Anonymous --- Contributed by Coley

?  "We must learn to live together as brothers, Or perish together as fools." --- Martin Luther King Jr. --- Contributed by Kyle Looney

?  "Be thankful for problems...or idiots would have your job." --- Author unknown --- Submitted by Michael Reed --- Hawaii

?  "We are here to add what we can to life, Not to get what we can from life." --- William Osler --- Contributed by Amanda Gier

?  "Control is anathema to performance." --- Neal Prescot --- Seattle

?  "Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength." --- Lao Tzu --- Contributed by Hazel Dudley --- Australia

?  "The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." --- J.M. Power --- Contributed by Amanda Gier

?  "If you really want to make the sale, make your pitch, Provide the sales contract, give the decision-maker the pen, And then sit back and shut up!" --- From a book by Charles Bettger --- Contributed by Gary Lee --- Maryland

?  "It is our special duty, that if anyone needs our help, We should give him such help to our utmost powers." --- Cicero --- Contributed by Laura Gomez --- Nevada

?  "If you don't have time to do it right, When are you going to have time to do it again?" --- Author unknown --- Contributed by Sara Stahlman --- Wisconsin

?  "When you break your word, You break the one thing that cannot be mended." --- Author unknown --- Contributed by Beth Garvin --- Mississippi

?  "Winners must have two things, Definite goals and a Burning Desire to achieve them!" --- Brad Burden --- Penticton, B.C. Canada

?  Before you criticize a man, You must walk a mile in the mans shoes. If he is still bothered by what you say, It is okay, Because you will be a mile away And you will have his shoes." --- Contributed by Jeffrey N. Pappas