“One person has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his or her life.” – Edward B. Butler

“Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.” – Harvey Cushing

“When you go through a day utterly devoid of enthusiasm, you are like a sluggish little stream of muddy water, flowing its easiest, sluggish, downhill course.” – Fred Van Amburgh

“The reason so many people are opting out of education is that it doesn’t feed their spirit. It doesn’t feed their energy or their passion.” – Ken Robinson

“We have to recognize that human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it’s an organic process, and you can not predict the outcome of human development. All you can do is, like a farmer, create the conditions under which they will begin to flourish.” – Ken Robinson

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.” – Elizabeth Bibesco

“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.” – Albert Schweitzer

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – James M. Barrie

“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed soul; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. That is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year; give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown; and he replied; go out into the darkness and put thine hand into the hand of God. that shall be to thee better than light and safer than a known way.” – M Louis Haskins

“Life is an exciting adventure, or it is nothing.” – Hellen Keller

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Critical Thinkers regard problems…as exciting challenges.” – Vincent Ryan Ruggiero

“You must learn to walk to the edge of the light, then a few steps into the darkness, then the light will appear.” – Spencer W. Kimball

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

“Three Rules for Success: 1. Start Now. 2. Do it Flamboyantly. 3. No Exceptions.” – William James (modified)

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common that unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not,the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” -Calvin Coolidge

“Far better 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 much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” -Theodore Rosevelt

“The most welcomed people of the world are never those who continually look back upon the trials, the sorrows, the failures, the bitter frustrations of yesterday, but those who cast their eyes forward with faith, hope…courage, happy curiosity.” – James Francis Cooke

“The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty.” – J P Jacks

“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.” – Bill Bradley

“The things we remember best are those better forgotten.” – Baltasar Gracian

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it in turn will look sourly at you; laugh at it, and with it, and it is a jolly, kind companion.” – William Makespeace Thatckeray

“There are no limitations to what you can do, except the limitations of your own mind as to what you cannot do. Don’t think you cannot; think you can. life moves in one direction only-and each day we are faced with an actual set of circumstances, not with what might have been, not with what we might have done, but with what is, and with where we are now-and from this point we must proceed: not from where we were, not from where we wish we were-but from where we are.” – Richard L Evans

“This I know well: that the chief part of every life consists of small things…blessed is the man who can enjoy the small things, the common beauties, the little day-by-day events; sunshine on the fields, birds on the bough, breakfast, dinner, supper, the daily paper on the porch, a friend passing by. So many people who go afield for enjoyment leave it behind them at home.” – David Grayson

“We can’t do everything for everyone everywhere, but we can do something for someone somewhere.” – Richard L Evans

“We learn little from victory, much from defeat.” – Japanese Proverb

“We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.” – Charles F Kettering

“When I do not a just thing, or a charitable, or a wise, another man may do it for me, yet no man can forgive my enemy but myself.” – Edward Herbert

“When you know who you are; when your mission is clear and you burn with the inner fire of unbreakable will; no cold can touch your heart; no deluge can dampen your purpose. You know that you are alive.” – Chief Seattle

“Without the assistance of that Divine Being…I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths, himself a light.” – Felix Adler

“You are as young as your faith, and as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.” – Zoroaster

“The influence of a man is not just in what he says (or does) but what he is. Character is singularly contagious.” – Samuel Eliot

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.” – Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer

“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No one could endure adversity if, while it continued, it kept the same violence that its first blows had…no state is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation…it is possible to soften what is hard…and burdens will press less heavily upon those who bear them skillfully.” – Seneca