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