Ability has nothing to do with opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain

If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.  - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. - J. Lubbock

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. - Francis Bacon

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. - John G. Pollard

Ability is of little account without opportunity. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The king is the man who can. - Thomas Carlyle

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. - Josh Billings

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. - Andrew Carnegie

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.  - John F. Kennedy

If a man is called a streetsweeper, 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 streetsweeper who did his job well. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Goethe

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. - Henry David Thoreau

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar. - William Faulkner

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you. - T.S. Eliot

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. - Henry Ward Beecher

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can.  - George Matthew Adams

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of a man's life. - Cicero

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.  - William Ernest Henley

What does not destroy me makes me stronger. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Who you are today is a product of what you did yesterday. Who you are tomorrow is a product of what you did today...make every second count! - Christie Jean-Baptiste

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. - Booker T. Washington

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. - Mario Cuomo

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it. - John Ruskin

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. - Plutarch

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Huxley

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never confuse motion with action. - Ernest Hemingway

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light. - Francis Bacon

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings. - Andrew Jackson

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. - Mark Twain

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it. - Albert Schweitzer

The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.  - Ashley Montagu

Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it. - Rudyard Kipling

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

What you become is more important than what you accomplish. - Anonymous

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

That's one small step for a man, one great leap for mankind. - Neil Armstrong, first words spoken on the moon

Action that is clearly right needs no justification. - Elisabeth Elliot

Nothing worthwhile ever happens quickly and easily. You achieve only as you are determined to achieve... and as you keep at it until you have achieved. - Robert H. Lauer

America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.  - Ayn Rand

Before you can do something you must first be something. - Goethe

The deed is everything, the glory is naught. - Goethe

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. - Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. - Greek proverb

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks...  - Phillips Brooks

Everyone has superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the things intended was accomplished. - Ulysses Grant

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.  - Dr. Samuel Johnson

Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. - Henry David Thoreau

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow is you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.  - Brian Tracy

What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you.  - Ralph W. Sockman

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.  - Walter Bagehot

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise -- it makes you stretch. - Mary Kay Ash

The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

It's easy to make a buck. It's tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw

Opportunity... often it come disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. - Napoleon Hill

Your learn that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. - Jack Youngblood

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Johnson

Be so good they can't ignore you.  - Jerry Dunn

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.  - Moliere

Because I seen something that had to be done and I did it. (Tom Lee became a local hero in 1925 after saving 32 people from drowning, using his small fishing boat, during a Mississippi River disaster south of Memphis TN: Mr. Lee could not swim.)  - Tom Lee

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. (from 'Time Must Have a Stop')  - Aldous Huxley

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. - Earl Nightingale

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters. - Abigail Van Buren

Teenage boy to father: "Here's my report card and an impressive list I've compiled of entrepreneurs who never finished high school." (from The Wall Street Journal) - Charles Almon

Every moment in planning saves 3 or 4 in execution. (Greenwalt is the former president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours) - Crawford Greenwalt

Victory belongs to the most persevering. - Napoleon

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages. - Francis Wayland

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. - C. Malesherbes

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders. - George P. Burnham

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. - Thomas J. Watson

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The right man is the one who seizes the moment. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. - Ayn Rand

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. - Peter Marshall

Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France

There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened. We all have a choice. You can decide which type of person you want to be. I have always chosen to be in the first group.  - Mary Kay Ash

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.  - Mary Kay Ash

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end. (from 'Into Thin Air') - Jon Krakaur

To enhance the quality of the day... That is the highest of the arts. - Henry David Thoreau

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.  - Dale Carnegie

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes.  - Jim Rohn

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime. Therefore, we must be saved by hope. - Reinhold Niebuhr

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living. - Marie Beynon Ray

My age is as a lusty winter Frosty, but kindly. - Shakespeare

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. - Marie Stopes

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. - Plato

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things. - Senator Theodore Francis Green

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his forties shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. - Hugo Black

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.  - Horace Rumpole

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. - Gabriel García Márquez

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. - Goethe

People go through two basic stages of life: Young trying to be older and older trying to be young. - Daniel Neal

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. - Cicero

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. - Dame Mary Gilmore

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. - T.S. Eliot

Always keep a smile. I attribute my long life to that. I believe I will die laughing. That's part of my program. {died laughing (we suppose) in 1997 at age 122} - Jeanne Calment

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy-five and yet not ever truly to have lived.  - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A man is only as old as the woman he feels. - Groucho Marx

One should know that living beings are moist and warm...however, old age is dry and cold. - Aristotle

Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65, I still had pimples. - George Burns

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.  - Joan Borysenko

No man is ever old enough to know better.  - Holbrook Jackson

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.  - Winnie the Pooh

The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly like pearls slipping off a string. - Lucy M. Montgomery (Anne of Avonlea)

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age. - Booth Tarkington

One advantage is growing older is that you can stand for more and fall for less. (from Sunshine Magazine) - Monta Crane

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him. - Jean Paul Richter

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. - George Bernard Shaw

To me - old age is 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. - R. Palmer

We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten. - John W. Turk

It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half. - Percy H. Johnston

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. - Frank Lloyd Wright

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

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. - William Dean Howells

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. {on his 100th Birthday} - Eubie Blake

When you have lived longer in this world and have outlived the enthusiastic and pleasing illusions of youth, you will find your love and pity for the race increased tenfold; your admiration and attachment to any particular party or opinion fall away altogether. - Stanley Baldwin

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. (1860-1904 - Russian author, playwright)  - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life.  - Brian Andreas

Don't go to heaven in search of angels, seek to find heaven from angels!  - Langenhoven

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. - Luciano de Crescenzo

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. - Thomas Carlyle

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. - The Bible, Hebrews 13:2

The best cure for anger is delay. - Seneca

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. - Eric Hoffer

He that strives not to stem his anger's tide, does a wild horse without a bridle ride. - Colley Cibber

We praise a man who is angry on the right grounds, against the right persons, in the right manner, at the right moment, and for the right length of time. - Aristotle

We are all crazy when we are angry. - Philemon

Make no friendships with an angry man. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:24

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas Kempis

Brothers, don't forget that it is best to listen much, speak little, and not become angry. - The Bible, James 1:19

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. - Samuel Butler

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are. - Henry Ward Beecher

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. {The Merchant of Venice} - William Shakespeare

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.  - Mother Teresa

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. - William Congreve

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. - John Milton

To forgive is holy To forget takes restraint To forget what you forgave is the mark of a true saint.  - Anonoymous

Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship.  - Martin Luther King Jr.

If you hate a person, you hate something in something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse, Demian

We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away. - William Barclay

The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of lfie before he can comprehend the full value of the greater. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Life unexamined, is not worth living. - Democritus

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin

The truly important things in life -- love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked - Pablo Casals

Those who fear what they should not, and who do not fear what they should…go the downward path. (from The Path of Perfection) - The DHAMMAPADA

The real issue is not whether to grow, it is how to grow and for what purpose. - Anonymous

Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things. - Bruce Barton

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion. - Lord Acton

If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. - Socrates

The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite. - Cicero

A lot of writers complain that they are exhausted after writing a book. I don’t understand this; you can sit down while doing it, can't you? - Simon Vestdijk

When you are alone you are all your own. - Leonardo da Vinci

The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. - Leonardo da Vinci

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge

Better by far that you should forget and smile, than you should remember and be sad. - Christina Rossetti

Health is not a condition of matter, but of mind. - Mary Baker Eddy

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. - Julius Caesar

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy. - Ayn Rand

Anybody can do anything that he imagines. - Henry Ford

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? - Percy Shelley

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Thomas Huxley

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir to a visiting diplomat

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill

In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. - Al Capone

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose. - S.I. Hayakawa

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself. - Louis Nizer

The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it's probably deserved. - Russell Lynes

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them. - Spinoza

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts. - Madame de Stael

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. - Henry Ward Beecher

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. - James K. Feibleman

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly. - Francis De Sales

What life means to us is determined not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens. - Lewis L. Dunnington

If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. - Mrs. Ernest Hemingway

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard

When men are easy in themselves, they let others remain so. - Anthony A. Cooper-Lord Shaftesbury

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face. - Helen Keller

If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of the whole year, you will find that the sunshine predominates. - Ovid

Use soft words in hard arguments. - H.G. Bohn

When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. - Thomas Jefferson

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. - Samuel Butler

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. - Charles William Stubbs

Sanity is a madness put to good uses. - George Santayana

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. - George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Sir Winston Churchill

Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. - Joseph Murphy

The men who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. - Melvin J. Evans

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert L. Stevenson

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. - James Thurber

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. - Blaise Pascal

They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.  - Captain James

There can be no offense where none is taken. - Japanese proverb

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. - John Milton

A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause. - Ayn Rand

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it. - Ayn Rand

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

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength. - Hasidic saying

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath. - Thomas Crum

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.  - Clarence Darrow, lecture, University of Chicago, 1

Do continue to believe that with your feeling and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. - Abraham Lincoln

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.  - Seneca

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. - John F. Kennedy

When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. - John F. Kennedy

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow) - Horace

For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are there, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them! I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible... - Friedrich Nietzsche

Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. - Sir William Osler

Gentlemen, - Farewell, and take with you into the struggle the watchword of the good old Roman - Aequanimitas. - Sir William Osler

I was never less alone than when by myself. - Edward Gibbon

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel. - Ambrose Bierce

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. - Phillips Brooks

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.  - Zig Ziglar

The highest of distinctions is service to others. - King George VI

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.  - Langenhoven

We need to be grateful for many things that did not happen. - Langenhoven

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather. - Henry David Thoreau

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? - Henry David Thoreau

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. - Steven Covey

Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. - Chinese Proverb

There's only us, there's only this, forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today. - Jonathan Larson

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who'll never find it out. - Frank A. Clark

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. - Henry Ward Beecher

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. - Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. - Henry Ward Beecher

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for. - Epicurus

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself - forget about the impression you are trying to make. - Dale Carnegie

Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Dale Carnegie

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. - Dale Carnegie

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.  - Pearl S. Buck

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou

Men are not worried by things that happen, but by their thoughts about those things. - Epictetus

To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. - Sydney Smith

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

If peace be in the heart the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty. - C.F. Richardson

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction. - George Horace Lorimer

He who believes is strong. Strong convictions precede great actions. - J.F. Clarke

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. - Helen Keller

Be very careful, then, how you live - not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity. - The Bible, Ephesians 5:15,16 NIV

Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope. - Turkish proverb

Resolved - never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life. - Jonathan Edwards

Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. - Lloyd John Ogilvie

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them. - Julie Burchill

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. - Margaret Thatcher

When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. - Mary Kay Ash

Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.  - Mary Kay Ash

Worry is a think stream of fear which, if encouraged, becomes a wide channel into which all other thoughts flow. Assume an attitude of positive expectancy! - Author Unknown

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. - Calvin Coolidge

Man is what he believes. - Anton Chekhov

People think of the Golden Rule as something mild and innocuous, like a baby lamb. But when they suffer an infringement of it, they think they've been mauled by a panther. - Francis Wren

No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood. - Anonymous

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists... this knowledge, this feeling, is the centre of true religiousness. - Albert Einstein

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.  - Leo Buscaglia

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. - John Milton

Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance. - Gill Atkinson

If you think you can do a thing, or think you can't do a thing: you're right.  - Henry Ford

Sometimes the best way to deal with everyday life, is to lay down on your mat and take a nap. - Joyce Bartels

Never frown beacuse you never know who might be falling in love with your smile. - Justine Milton

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.  - Bill Cosby

A lot of guilt comes from the feeling that we have more influence than we really do. - Dan Gottlieb

And while it takes courage to achieve greatness, it takes more courage to find fulfillment in being ordinary. For the joys that last have little relationship to achievement, to standing one step higher on the victory platform. What is the adventure in being ordinary? It is daring to love just for the pleasure of giving it away. It is venturing to give new life and to nurture it to maturity. It is working hard for the pure joy of being tired at the end of the day. It is caring and sharing and giving and loving...  - Marilyn Thomsen

I lose and find myself in the long water. I am gathered together once more.  - Theodore Roethke

When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.  - Sam Lefkowitz

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!  - Anne Frank

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.  - Emily Dickinson

The best work is done in defiance of management. - Bob Woodward

Bad times, hard times - this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.  - St. Augustine

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels is your heart. So fill your heart with good things and good things will follow you for the rest of your life. - Scott Murray

... You do what you must do, and you do it well. - Bob Dylan

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

If i were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disaoppoints, possibility never. (from EITHER/OR Volume 1, Chapter titled Diapsalmata) - Soren Kierkegaard

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge. - Og Mandino

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - C. Archie Danielson

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.  - Roy L Smith (American Clergyman)

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. - from 'The Neurotic's Notebook' - Mignon McLaughlin

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world. (1875-1941 - English mystic) - Evelyn Underhill

Expectations are the thief of God's blessings. - Constance K. Hardy

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it. - Bernard Bailey

It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire

An egotist is a person who plays too big a part in his own life. - Dan Bennett

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger

Bitterness is the poison we drink hoping to kill someone else. - Carol Gemmell

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help with man with the wrong mental attitude. - W.W. Ziege

Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness. - Louis Kossuth

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours. - - Beatrice Vincent

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but is has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller

The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James

Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without the hope of emancipation. - John C. Granville

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which, though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it are those swelling waves stilled and quieted. - Marcus Aurelius

Without haste, but without rest. - Goethe

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. - Daniel H. Burnham

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. - John F. Kennedy

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. - Jean Church

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. - Abraham Maslow

If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear; For, if you will persevere, You will conquer; never fear; Try, try again. - McGuffey's Second Reader

You must not only aim aright, but draw the bow with all your might.  - Henry David Thoreau

Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer.  - Leo F. Buscaglia

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.  - Ayn Rand

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land amongst the stars.  - Jill McLemore

We are new every day.  - Irene Claremont de Castillego

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves... Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you will not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. (from "Letters To A Young Poet")  - Rainer Maria Rilke

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you. - Bishop Steere

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.  - Jacob M. Braude

Be Kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle. - Philo of Alexandria

Light tomorrow with today.  - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. (from 'Letters To A Young Poet')  - Rainer Maria Rilke

God bears with imperfect beings even when they resist His goodness. We ought to imitate this merciful patience and endurance. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of other people. - Francois de Fenelon

Throughout the years of your life you will face many challenges, remember that you can climb the highest mountain, drive through the roughest storm, soar across the bluest sky, or even sail across the roughest waters. It is only destined by your attitude where you will end up in life. The most important thing is don't let yourself get lost in the crowd. - Angela Duvall

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. - Walter Elliott

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - E. E. Cummings

Being defeated is often only a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - Marilyn vos Savant

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. - Wilfred Peterson

For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time waits for no one. Happiness is a journey, not a destination... - Souza

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. - Stonewall Jackson

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. - Roy R. Gilson

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. - George Bancroft

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. - Al Bernstein

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy.  - George MacDonald

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. - Socrates

Without grace, beauty is an unbaited hook. - French Proverb

Memories are like pictures imprinted on the soul. - Lira Onida Dion

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. - Goethe

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. - Ivan Panin

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy. - Lord Greville

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. - Vernon Howard

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful. - Ninon De L'Enclos

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.  - Edward A. Navajo

Beauty is whatever gives joy. - Hugh Nibley

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. - Andrew Carnegie

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. - Leonardo da Vinci

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright

I believe totally in a capitalist system; I only wish that someone would try it. - Frank Lloyd Wright

The business of America is business. - Calvin Coolidge

Most people spend more time and energy in going around problems than in trying to solve them. - Henry Ford

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey

No man is any the worse off because another acquires wealth by trade, or by the exercise of a profession; on the contrary, he cannot have acquired his wealth except by benefiting others to the extent of what they considered to be its value. - Thomas Huxley

I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man. - Ayn Rand

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. - Margaret Thatcher

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don't have for something they don't need. - Will Rogers

Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive. - George Washington

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. - Theodore Hesburgh

Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work. - John G. Pollard

A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it.  - Ken Adelman

Morale is faith in the man at the top. - Albert S. Johnstone

Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln

None of the secrets of success will work unless you do.  - Vic Harville

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.  - Henry Ford

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau

We mean to have less of Government in business and more business in Government. - Address to Congress, 1921 - Warren Gamaliel Harding

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done. - Dale Carnegie

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt

Be it furniture, clothes, healthcare...industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers. - Michael Mescon

More business is lost every year through neglect, than through any other cause. - Jim Cathcart

There is only one boss - the Customer. And he can fire anybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents. - Andrew S. Grove

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.  - Craig Shaw Gardner

We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. - Mary Kay Ash

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution. - Mary Kay Ash

The seeds you plant in the hearts and minds of others will be what you receive in return -- 100-fold. Only sow that which you wish to receive in return. Sow good, receive good! Plant seeds daily in your Mary Kay business and your Mary Kay business will return to you.  - Mary Kay Ash

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government... Economy is always a guarantee of peace. - Calvin Coolidge

The key to life is to figure out who to be the batboy for. - Warren Buffett

Get what you can and keep what you have; that's the way to get rich. - Scottish proverb

Those whose work and pleasures are one are fortune's favorite children.  - Winston Churchill

Why and How are words so important that they cannot be too often used. - Napoleon Bonaparte

One man's wage increase is another man's price increase. - Harold Wilson

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark: you know what you are doing but nobody else does. - Ed Howe

The world is divided into people who do things - and people who get the credit.  - Dwight Morrow

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.  - Benjamin Franklin

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and esthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient.  - Aldo Leopold

The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well. - William Osler

Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. - Thomas Edison

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. - H. H. Williams

The ability to manage the unexpected consequences of our choices and decisions is the real secret in investment success...On the basis of my experience, greater danger lurks in the temptation to chicken out when the going is rough and your precious wealth seems to be going down the tubes. (A forward from the book, Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, June 21, 2002) - Peter Bernstein

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity. - John Templeton

Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The most sensible people to be met within society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be. - William Hazlitt

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. - Herodotus

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done. - Benjamin Morrell

When speculation has done its worse, two and two still make four. - Samuel Johnson

Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world. - William J.H. Boetcker

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. - William Hazlitt

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice; he must go ahead or he will go back. - Lewis E. Pierson

Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics. - Robert G. Ingersoll

The big shots are only the little shots who keep shooting. - Christopher Morley

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason. - Ayn Rand

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. - Milton Friedman

The golden rule for every business man is this: "Put yourself in your customer's place."  - Orison Swett Marden

It's not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It's the customer who pays the wages. - Henry Ford

Customer service doesn't come from a manual, it comes from the heart. When you're taking care of the customer, you can never do too much. And there is NO wrong way - if it comes from the heart. - Debbie ("Mrs.") Fields

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes. - Daniel R. Scroggin

Motivate them, train them, care about them, and make winners out of them...they'll treat the customers right. And if customers are treated right, they'll come back.  - J. Marriott Jr.

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. - B.C. Forbes

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. - Sir James Barrie

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. (from 'The Fifth Discipline') - Peter Senge

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning. - Jack Welch

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius

October is one of those dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November, and December. - Mark Twain

You can't rule out deflation just because you've never seen it in your lifetime. - N. Gregory Mankiw

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. - from 'A Short Guide to a Happy Life' (Random House) - Anna Quindlen

If you think of vision and mission as an organization's head and heart, the values it holds are its soul. (from 'Making Common Sense Common Practice') - Buzotta

Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more. - Phillips Brooks

When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. - Confucius

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave. - Henry Ward Beecher

Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verbs agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. - The Bible, Psalm 41:1

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.  - The Bible, Proverbs 18:16

He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:9

Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. - The Bible, Acts 10:4

Give, and it shall be given unto you good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. - The Bible, Luke 6:38

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me.  - The Bible, Matthew 25:40

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.  - The Bible, Proverbs 28:27

Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it-drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love. - John Ruskin

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. - Billy Graham

The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and man. - Ellen G. White

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the sign of a righteous man. - Maimonides, Mishneh Torah

The only thing that can remove poverty is sharing. Jesus came among the poorest, to teach people to love one another, which is to share-to use the gifts that God has given to people who have, so share with those who have not. - Mother Teresa

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.  - The Bible, Proverbs 3:27

I have showed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive. - The Bible, Acts 20:35

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver. - The Bible, 2 Corinthians 9:7

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.  - Bruce Barton

I can't make people like me, but if I wasn't me, I would like me. - Third-grader

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. - John Wilmot

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. - The Bible, Proverbs 22:6

Children need models more than they need critics. - Joseph Joubert

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S. Truman

If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. - Socrates - 420 B.C.

A child is fed with milk and praise. - Mary Lamb

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence. - Dr. Benjamin Spock

A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home. - The Talmud

The best way to keep children home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere - and let the air out of the tires. - Dorothy Parker

The greatest aid to adult education is children. - Charlie T. Jones and Bob Phillips

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak. - Benjamin Franklin

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so. - Margaret Thatcher

Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed. - Robert Gallagher

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings. - Hodding Carter

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.  - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Bitter are the tears of a child: Sweeten them. Deep are the thoughts of a child: Quiet them. Sharp is the grief of a child: Take it from him. Soft is the heart of a child: Do not harden it.  - Pamela Glenconner

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp

It takes a village to raise a child. - African proverb

Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. - Kahlil Gibran

Children are our most valuable natural resource. - Herbert Hoover

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance. - Franklin P. Jones

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.  - Koran

Too often we give our children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.  - Roger Lewin

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. - Rabbinic saying

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.  - Bill Vaughn

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterward. - St. Francis Xavier

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. - Albert Einstein

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud

A child miseducated is a child lost. - John F. Kennedy

For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. {99-55 B.C} - Titus Lucretius Carus

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. - T.S. Eliot

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. - Carl Sandburg

If you instill in your child a love of the outdoors and an appreciation of nature, you will have given him a treasure no one can take away. - Ted Trueblood

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.  - Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Each of us, whether we have anything to do with children or not, are directly effected by how the are treated. - Bumper Sticker

...because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are... - Barbara Coloroso

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.  - Peter De Vries

True obedience is a matter of love, which makes it voluntary, not compelled by fear or force.  - Dorothy Day

What is more enchanting than the voices of young people when you can't hear what they say? {1865-1946} - Logan Pearsall Smith

The work will wait while you show your child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.  - Patricia Clafford

God sends children to enlarge our hearts, and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections. - Mary Howitt

Sons are a heritage from the Lord, children a reward from Him. - The Bible, Psalm 127:3 NIV

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. (Winnie the Pooh) - A.A. Milne

I shall tell you a tale of four rabbits whose names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. - Beatrix Potter

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! Christopher Robin is saying his prayers. - A.A. Milne

Kittens are treated to houses well heated And pigs are protected by pens; But a camel comes in handy wherever its sandy... - C.E. Carryl

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.  - Randall Jarrell

"Second to the right," said Peter, "and then straight on till morning." (from Peter Pan) - JM Barrie