"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiansm." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson "Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." ~ G.K. Chesterton "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~ Muriel Strode "I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." ~Thomas Carlyle "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." ~ Martha Washington "We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." William Hazlitt "Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." ~ Winston Churchill "If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it." ~ Lucy Larcom "It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted." ~ Marie O'Conner "The determination to win is the better part of winning." ~ Daisaku Ikeda "Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility." ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton "He that would govern others, first should be master of himself." ~ Philp Massinger "It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." ~ Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (Moliere) "I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." ~ Marie Curie "The shifts of fortune test the reliablility of friends." ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero "Coming together is beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." ~ Henry Ford "Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination;on cooperation, not intimidation." ~ William Arthur Ward "True self-respect, being very different from false pride, leads inevitably to respecting others." ~ Virginia Moore "Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery." ~ Joyce Brothers "It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own." ~ Dorothy Fuldheim "Good manners spring from just one thing- kind impulses." ~ Elsa Maxwell "I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance." ~ Pablo Casals "Generosity with strings is not generosity; it is a deal." ~ Marya Mannes "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." ~ The Dalai Lama "To be in one's won heart in kindly sympathy with all things; this is the nature of righteousness. " ~Kong Qiu "I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward." ~ Charlotte Bronte "Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it." ~ Publius Ovidius Naso "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." ~ George MacDonald "Fairness is what justice really is." ~ Potter Stewart "Prosperity provideth, but adversity proveth friends." ~ Queen Elizabeth I "To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful" ~ Edward R. Murrow "Slander cannot destroy an honest man- when the flood recedes the rock is there." ~ Chinese Proverb "What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most." ~ Andre Gide "Little by little, one walks far." ~ Peruvian Proverb "To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success." ~ Anna Pavlova "Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." ~ Joseph Campbell "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." ~ C.S. Lewis "Creativity- like human life itself- begins in darkness." ~ Julia Cameron "A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody comtemplates it with the idea of cathedral in mind." ~ Antonine De Saint-Exupery "Intelligence is the only unlimited natural resource." ~ Anonymous "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau "As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others." ~ Robert H. Schuller "A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be." ~ Rosealynn Carter "Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk." ~ Shirley Hufstedler "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant." ~ Socrates "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse." ~ Adlai Stevenson "We can't solve problems by usin the same kind of thinking we used to create them." ~ Albert Einstein "We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this." ~ Woodrow Wilson "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it." ~ Mark Twain " The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience" ~ Harper Lee "The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy." ~ Meryl Streep "Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience, but the conscience of the whole of humanity." ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn "It is no use fixing our minds on higher things if we ifnore what is going on around us." ~ Aesop "He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise." ~ William Blake "Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries." ~ Corita Kent "Thou that hast giv'n so much to me, Give one thing more a grateful heart." ~ George Herbert "Appreciation is a wonderful thing;it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." ~ Francois-Marie Arouet | 
