Quotations 

• The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly  and in a thousand things well.  Hugh Walpole

• We see things not as they are, but as we are.  H. M. Tomlinson

•  Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them. William Howard Taft

•   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  

•  Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. George Van Valkenburg

•  I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln

•  You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato

•   Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. Chinese Proverb

•  A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. David Brinkley

• Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.  Josh Billings

•  Constant dripping hollows out a stone. Lucretius

• A man always have two reasons for doing anything; a good reason and the real reason. John Pierpont Morgan

• The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should not want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.  Benjamin Franklin

• Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. Abraham Lincoln  

• Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment. Stephen Covey

• It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead.
  The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. Sir Winston Churchill

• The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.  Don Herold  

•  Don't dwell on reality; it will only keep you from greatness.  Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.

•  Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.  Theodore Roosevelt

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

•  The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.Heywood Brown

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.Gandhi

•   And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln  

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

•   Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.Charles Luckman  

•   The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

•   Wisdom begins in wonder. Socrates

• It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. Amelia Earhart

• Vision without action is a daydream, Action without vision is a nightmare.  Japanese Proverb

• Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear.  Mark Twain

• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.   Harriet Beecher Stowe

•  Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. Doug Firebaugh

• Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being at ill ease with yourself.  Balzac

•  You can only live once, but if you live right, once is enough. Joe E. Lewis

• Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle

•  It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic. Winston Churchill

•  Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it. J.B. Matthews

• The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight. But they while their companions slept Were toiling upwards in the night. Longfellow  

•   You gotta have goals!  Zig Ziglar

• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.John Lubbock  

• I have never had a policy. I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.  Abraham Lincoln

•  Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain

•   In matter of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. Thomas Jefferson  

•  Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.  Benjamin Franklin