Quotes
"The art of life lies in the constant readjustment to our surroundings."
-- Kakuzo Okokiwa'
"The greatest discovery of our time is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind."
-- William James
"Curiosity is the beginning of success." --Anonymous
"Have patience with all things, but mostly with yourself."
-- St. Francis de Sales
"If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement."
-- Hsusn - Tzu
"Achievement comes when you decided to live your possibilities."
-- Anonymous
"He who would learn to fly must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance: one cannot fly into flying."
-- Neitzsche
"We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough."
-- Helen Keller
"Life is full of ups and downs. The trick is t4o enjoy the ups and have the courage during the down." -- Anonymous
"Live every act fully, as if it were your last."
-- Buddha
"We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power."
-- Isak Dinesen
"There is no progress without some discontent and discomfort. Only by great risk can great results be achieved."
-- Xerxes
"When shall we live, if not now? Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will."
-- A.W. Tozer
"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes."
-- William E. Gladstone
"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
-- Sir Edmund Hillary
"Be courageous! Have faith! Go Forward!"
-- Thomas A Edison
"You must act as if it is impossible to fail."
-- Ashanti Proverb
"All things at first appear difficult."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Life is built of things we do; the only constructive material is positive action."
-- Anonymous
"Most people have never learned that on of the main aims in life is to enjoy it."
-- Samuel Butler
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
-- Arthur Koestler
"We just learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Dreams are works in progress."
-- Anonymous
"The important thing is not to stop questioning."
-- Albert Einstein
"The beginnings of all things are small."
-- Cicero
"Courage is grace under pressure."
-- Ernest Hemingway
"Leadership is action, not position."
-- Conway Stone
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When you don't know what harbor you are aiming for, no wind is the right wind."
-- Seneca
"To make headway, improve your head."
-- B.C. Forbs
"Opportunities are seldom labeled."
-- Anonymous
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
-- Gandi
"Be bold and mighty and many forces will come your aid."
-- Basil King
"Habits change into character."
-- Ovid
"The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"I like the dream of the future better than the history of the past."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Tomorrow belongs to those who have vision today."
-- Anonymous
"To move the world we must first move ourselves."
-- Socrates
"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-- Albert Einstein
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"Discovery lies in seeing what everyone see, but thinking what no one has thought. Truth is the most valuable thing we have."
-- Mark Twain
"We build too many walls and not enough bridges."
-- Sir Isaac Newton
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risk."
-- Herodotus
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-- Marie Curie
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein
"Ideas shape the course of history."
-- John Keynes
"Always keep a window open in your mind for new ideas."
-- Anonymous
"What you want to be eventually you must be very day. With practice, the quality of your deeds will get down in your soul."
-- Frank Crane
"Anyone who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life."
-- Charles Darwin
“Within ourselves are the seed of triumph or defeat.”
-- Longfellow
“Surround yourself with challenging people and ideas.”
-- Conway Stone
“It may be that those who do most, dream most.”
-- Stephen Leacock
“Growth is the only evidence of life.”
-- Cardinal Newman
“If you can command yourself, you can command the world.”
-- Chinese Proverb
“Nothing is so difficult that it cannot be accomplished by diligence.”
-- Terence
“There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.”
-- George Eliot
“Trust yourself and you will know hot wo live.”
-- Goethe
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only pan but also believe.”
-- Anatole France
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.”
-- John F. Kennedy
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or salie dto an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.”
-- Helen Keller
“One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you can’t be certain until you try.”
-- Sophocles
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir the blood.”
-- Daniel Burnham
“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
-- Babe Ruth
“Nothing would be doe at all if we waited until it could be done so well that no one could find fault with it.”
-- Cardinal Newman
“He does what he says he will do; that makes him better than most.”
-- TV show ‘Spencer for Hire’
“There is no darkness but ignorance.”
-- Shakespeare
“Before proceeding on must reach.”
-- West African Proverb
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.”
-- William Jennings Bryan
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when you have only one idea.”
-- Alain
“The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
-- Francis Bacon
“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
-- Horace Mann
“The very essence of leadership is having vision.”
-- Father Theodore Hesburg
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
-- Andre Gide
“Success comes before work only in the dictionary.”
-- Anonymous
“Nothing will come of nothing…dare mighty things.”
-- Shakespeare
“One should count each day a separate life.”
-- Seneca
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
-- Amelia Earhart
“Work is good provided you do not forget to live.”
-- Bantu Proverb
“There would be nothing to frighten you if you refuse to be afraid.”
-- Gandhi
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
-- Albert Einstein
“Do not settle for less than an extraordinary life.”
-- Conway Stone
“There is no shortcut. Victory lies in overcoming obstacles every day.”
-- Anonymous
“Choose well. Your choice is brief and yet endless.”
-- Goethe
“Activity is the only road to knowledge.”
-- George Bernard Shaw
“Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.”
-- Anonymous
“A good beginning is half the battle.”
-- Portuguese Proverb
“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”
-- H.G. Wells
“Completed is better than perfect.”
-- Writer Proverb
“Nothing astonishes others so much as common sense and plain dealing.”
-- Emerson
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”
-- The ancient text
“No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again today.”
-- Buddhist philosophy
“This above all: to thine own self be true. And it must follow as day follows the night that thou cannot be false to any man.”
-- Shakespeare
“You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
-- R. Tagore
“Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.”
-- Don Marquis
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
-- Robert F. Kennedy
“Without labor nothing prospers.”
-- Sophocles
“A dream is just a dream, if it’s only in your head. If no one gets to see it, it’s just as good as dead.”
-- Stephen Sondheim and Sunday in the Park with George
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it.”
-- Syrus Latinmimi writer
“Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.”
-- Bobby Knight
“Don’t lose your head, it’s the best part of your body.”
-- Jimmy “The Greek”
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“By your own soul learn to live. If men thwart you, take no heed, if men hate you, have not a care. Sing your song, dream your dream, and pray your prayer. If you do not ask, the answer is always ‘no’.”
-- Owen Laughlin
“Dreaming is not an accident. It is not a wistful idea you hope will come true. Dreaming is not the stuff of long-haired hippies wistfulling running along a beach. No, dreaming is a sophisticated tool used by the elite of our society to make themselves and this world a better place. People like Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, Warren Buffet, Col. Sanders and Walt Disney all started with a dream. The dreams started small but like the water that formed the great Grand Canyon, dreams are POWERFUL!”
-- Conway Stone
“A Dreamers prayer
Lord, maker of desires and dreams, hold me close to the heart of thy spirit so that by the grace of thy almighty hand I will be able to fulfill the reason you placed me here on this earth by following and accomplishing my dreams .He who expects much receives much. He who expects little receives little. He who expects nothing is seldom disappointed.”
-- Conway Stone
“Society needs its dreamers. Those willing to follow visions, work for new things and accomplish. There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.”
-- Jim England
“Passions are the gates to the soul”
-- Anonymous
“By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Everyone without passion has within him no principle to action no motive to act.”
--Anonymous
“We must nurture our dreams like we would a child. They are God given and just as precious. Without ambition how would a child learn to ride a bicycle, play an instrument or whistle? We deny the spirit of God when we as adults settle for less than our dreams!”
-- Conway Stone
“We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have “crossed bridges” in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.”
-- The Speakers Library
“Use the talents you possess… the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.”
-- The Speakers Library
“If you have a new car, would it matter if you did not put the key in and turn and push on the peddle. The same is true with your dreams, they have no value by themselves.”
-- Anonymous
“What marks a dreamer is dedication to an ideal, a dedication so strong that it rejects outright the complacency of those who prefer the status quo and insists there has to be another way.”
-- Anonymous
“Every battle is won or lost before it is won.”
-- The Art of War
“Ships are safe in harbor, but that is not what ships are for.”
-- Country Song
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
-- Anonymous
“Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.”
-- Thomas Payne
“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”
-- John Wooden
“Everything great that has ever happened to humanity since the beginning has begun as a single thought in someone’s mind. And if anyone of us is capable of such a great thought, then all of us are capable of that thought.”
-- Yanni
“Men of reason have endured; men of passion have lived.”
-- French Philosophy
“Only the passion for great dreams can elevate the mind to great things.”
-- French Philosophy
“Every thinker put some portion of the stable world in peril.”
-- John Dwey
“Man is only great when he acts from passion.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.”
-- Warren Buffet
“One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli
“Money doesn’t bring happiness, though it has been known to cause an occasional smile.”
-- Herb True
“Opportunities are often disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.”
-- Ann Landers
“Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”
-- Joseph Henry
"Pythagoras was misunderstood. So was Socrates, Jesus, Luther, Galileo, Newton and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
-- Emerson
“Every dreamer works in violate disagreement with their times.”
-- Conway Stone
“Don’t let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream and he thinks you are crazy. Succeed and he thinks you are greedy. Pay no attention, he simply doesn’t understand.”
-- Robert G. Allen
“To know and not to do is not yet to know.”
-- Zen Saying
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
-- Goethe
“Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.”
-- Marilyn Ferguson
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his own dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
-- Henry David Thoreau
“The best way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.”
-- Anonymous
“A generous man will prosper…”
-- Proverbs 11:25
“Don’t confuse wishes with wants. When you want a thing, you go out and get it. When you merely wish for something, you just wait for it to come to you.”
-- Jack Klein
“A mistake at least proves someone stopped talking long enough to do something.”
-- Conway Stone
“The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.”
-- Vincent T. Lombardi
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
-- Demosthenes
“It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”
-- Somerset Maugham
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
-- John Norley
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
-- Winston Churchill
“Man’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.”
-- Anonymous
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
-- Thomas Alva Edison
“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
-- John Ruskin
“The worst bankruptcy in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.”
-- H.W. Arnold
“If a man is called to be 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 street sweeper who did his job well.”
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
“You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.”
-- James Allen
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
-- Will Rogers
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
-- Nietzsche
“Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.”
-- Napoleon Hill
"In all things, it is better to hope than to despair."
-- The ancient text
"Anyone who keeps learning remains young, regardless of their age."
-- Anonymous
"You might not always get what you want, but you will always get what you expect."
-- Charles H. Spurgeon
"When it's all said and done there is usually more said than done."
-- Anonymous
"I have known a great many troubles - most of which never happened."
-- Mark Twain
"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."
-- Jim Rohn
"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
-- Sir Richard Steele
"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
-- Booker T. Washington
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, it is a habit."
-- W.B. Prescott
"First we make our habits, then our habits make us."
-- Charles Noble
"Demanding that greatness be turned loose within us eventually releases something greater than we are."
-- H.L. Mencken
"If we desire one thing and expect another, we become like a country at civil war - two sides warring with no one winning."
-- Conway Stone
"All men of action are dreamers."
-- James G. Huneker
"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream."
-- Mike Melville
"The future belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams!"
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse."
-- Walt Disney
"Most men die from the neck up at the age of 25, because they stop dreaming."
-- Ben Franklin
"Dreams are a reflection of what you value and believe."
-- Rich Wilkins
"Humanity cannot forget its dreamers. It cannot let their ideas fade and die. It lives in them. It knows them as the realities which it shall one day see and know. Composers, sculptors, painters, poets, prophets and sages these are the makers of tomorrow. These are the architects of heaven." -- John Donne
"The only hope we have is for Anonymous Americans to get in touch with their beliefs and values and follow their God given dreams."
-- Conway Stone
"Most dreams of glory are safe because we never venture to put them into practice."
-- Charles Curothe
"We grow by dreams. All great men are dreamers. Some of us let dreams die, but others nourish and protect them and nurse them through the bad days to the sunshine and light which always come."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"All men of action are dreamers."
-- James G. Huneker
"If you get close to people, you will catch their dreams."
-- Anonymous
"Following his childhood dream of drawing comic strips, a young man was advised by an editor in Kansas City to give up drawing. He kept knocking on doors, only to be rejected. Finally, a church hired him to draw publicity material. Working out of an old garage, he befriended a mouse who ultimately became famous. The man was Walt Disney, his dream was DisneyWorld, and his friend was Mickey Mouse."
-- Walt Disney
"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
-- Victor Hugo
"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."
-- Carol Burnett
"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."
-- Erma Bombeck
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."
-- Erma Bombeck
"A dream only reflects the dreamer's thoughts."
-- Jonathan Eleazar
"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."
-- William Faulker
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there are dreams, love, and inspiration, you can't go wrong."
-- Ella Fitzgerald
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only dream, but also believe."
-- Anatole France
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for a dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
-- Bob Goddard
"When we can't dream anymore we die"
-- Emma Goldman
"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking would make every man a Donte or a Shakespeare."
-- H. F. Hedge
"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."
-- Jesse Jackson
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
-- Ralph Lauren
"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
-- T. E. Lawrence
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"I thank God I live in a country where dreams can come true, where failure is sometimes the first step to success, and where success is only another form of failure if we forget where our priorities should be."
-- Larry Lloyd
"There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream."
-- Archibald MacLeish
"The key to success is simple. Make people dream."
-- Gerald deNerval
"If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep."
-- Yiddish Proverb
"Nothing happens unless first we dream."
-- Carl Sandburg
"Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated his fear of trying."
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
"Don't part with your dreams. When they are gone you may still exist but you will have ceased to live."
-- Mark Twain
"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream."
-- Mike Melville
"Dream in a pragmatic way."
-- Aldous Huxley
"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy the reality?"
-- George Moore
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain
"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
-- Zig Ziglar
"Some people look at the world as it is and ask why. I dream of worlds that never were and ask why not."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Goals are dreams with deadlines."
-- Diana S. Hunt
"Most dreams of glory are safe, because we never venture to put them into practice."
-- Charles Curothe
"'Mrs. Keller, is there anything worse than being blind?' She replied, 'Yes, to be able to see and not have a vision.'"
-- Tony Robbins
"They may kill the dreamers, like they did Kennedy, King, Ghandi, and Lincoln. But I am convinced that as long as you and I follow our God given dreams, they will never kill the dream."
-- Conway Stone
"In dreams begins responsibility."
-- William B. Yeats
"Whatever you can do or dream, you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin now!"
-- Goethe
"Dreams are the touchstones of Character."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"No man becomes suddenly different from his habit and cherished thought."
-- Commander Joshua L. Chamberlain
"The greatest piece of real estate you own is the 6 inches between your ears."
-- Anonymous
"The power of an idea can be measured by the degree of resistance it attracts."
-- David Yoho
"When God calls you to do a task, take it. For God will always carry the heavy end."
-- An old Scottish saying
"When you fly like an eagle, you attract the hunters."
-- Milton Gould
"Mind is the master. Power that molds and makes man is mind and evermore he takes, the tool of thought and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills. He thinks in secret and it comes to pass. Environment is but his looking glass."
-- James Allen
"Many people talk like philosophers and live like fools."
-- H.G. Bohn
"Every great achievement was once considered impossible."
-- Anonymous
"The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points at which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind."
-- Sigmund Freud
"Nature of men is always the same. It is their habits that separate them."
-- Confucius
"I would rather see a crooked furrow than an unplowed field. I would rather attempt something great and fail than to attempt nothing and succeed."
-- Dr. Robert Schuller
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
-- Socrates
"A little philosophy inclineth a man to atheism. A depth of philosophy bringeth a man's mind about to religion."
-- Bacon
"Asking is the beginning of receiving. Don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon... at least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you."
-- Jim Rohn
"Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much."
-- Jim Rohn
"It's better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense, though it's best to have both."
-- Anonymous
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."
-- Seneca
"If you don't risk anything, you risk even more."
-- Erica Jong
"There is no sin except stupidity."
-- Oscar Wilde
"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."
-- Winston Churchill
"When you come to a fork in the road - take it."
-- Yogi Berra
"The brilliant moves we occasionally make would not have been possible without the prior dumb ones."
-- Stanley Goldstein
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is slavery."
-- Maxim Gorky
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
-- Shakespeare
"The direction of the mind is more important than its progress."
-- Joseph Joubert
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
-- Helen Keller
"Let fear be an advisor not a jailer."
-- Tony Robbins
"I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
"If a man doesn't keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"If you can't say 'no', your 'yes' means nothing."
-- Anonymous
"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."
-- Lily Tomlin
"Our greatest foes... are within."
-- Cervantes
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-- Anatole France
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil"
-- Maria Montessori
"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific."
-- Lily Tomlin
"Not admiring a mistake is a bigger mistake."
-- Robert Half
"Money never starts an idea. It is always the idea that starts the money."
-- Owen Laughlin
"When one teaches, two learn."
-- Robert Half
"What really matters is what you do with what you have."
-- Shirley Lord
"Only a fool tests the depth of water with both feet"
-- African proverb
"The pessimist may be right in the long run, but the optimist has a better time during the trip."
-- Anonymous
"They call you stubborn when you fail, but persistent when you succeed."
-- Anonymous
"The absurd man is he who never changes."
-- Auguste Barthelemy
"A ruler isn't always straight"
-- Robert Half
"Dreams are made up mainly of matters that have been in the dreamer's thoughts during the day."
-- Herodotus
"A man's heart changes his countenance, either for good or evil."
-- The ancient text
"One ought to hold onto one's heart; for if one lets go, one soon loses control of the head too."
-- Nietzsche
"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."
-- Joan Baez
"Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans."
-- Margaret Millar
"The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."
-- Winston Churchill
"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."
-- Henri F. Amiel
"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change nothing."
-- Lady Nancy Astor
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream."
-- Mark Twain [Samuel Longhomne Clemens] (1835-1910)
"If a million people say a foolish thing, It is still a foolish thing."
-- Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing"
-- Oscar Wilde
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
-- H. Jackson Brown
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible"
-- Walt Disney
"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
-- Shakespeare
"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
"Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength."
-- Hasidic saying
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world: Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
-- Margaret Meade