“Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the Power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism.” – Shearson/Lehman Bros.

“God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfaction of creation.” – Allen Stockdale

“I conceive that a great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Judge a leader by the followers.” –

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Remember, luck is opportunity meeting up with preparation, so you must prepare yourself to be lucky.” – Gregory Hines

“The marksman hitteth the target partly by pulling, partly by letting go. The boatsman reacheth the landing partly by pulling, partly by letting go.” – Egyptian proverb

“There are two things needed in these days; first, for rich men to find out how poor men live; and second, for the poor men to know how rich men work.” – Edward Atkinson

“We like someone because. We love someone although.” – Henri De Montherlant

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.” – Dale Carnegie

“A modest man often seems conceited because he is delighted with what he has done, thinking is better than anything of which he believed himself capable, whereas the conceited man is inclined to express dissatisfaction with his performances, thinking them unworthy of his genius.” – Hesketh Pearson

“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” – Michael O’Brien

“God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest.” – J G Holland

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.” – Bill Cosby

“Keep on going and chances are you will stumble on something…I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F Kettering

“No success can compensate for failure in the home.” – David O McKay

“Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it-Whitney Griswold

“The monosyllable of the clock is loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”- Tennessee Williams

“There’s nothing wrong with being a self-made man if you don’t consider the job finished too soon.” – John Mooney

“We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. a lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. everybody should have his personal sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm…as a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.” – Andre Kostelanetz, conductor

“You can tell happiness by a smile or a laugh. But joy, real joy, is something else, something that only the eyes reveal. They seem to look out and in at the same time, loving both self and other, judging neither.” – Mary Ylvisaker Nilsen

“A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.” – Laurence Housman

“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.” – Thomas Carlyle

“God has given us two hands-one to receive with and the other to give with. we are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.” – Rev Billy Graham

“I have a kind of contempt for intelligence all by itself. Coupled with energy and willingness, it’ll go. Alone, it winds up riding the rails.” – John Hersey

“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.” – William Cowper

“Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel an velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who hold in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.” – Carl Sanburg (on 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth)

“Set goals and follow through on them. You transform yourself from one of life’s spectators into a real participant.” – Lou Holtz

“The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first-a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.” – Dwight D Eishenhower

“They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We must become the change we wish to see in the world.” – Mohandas K Gandhi

“You can think about your problems or you can worry about them, and there is a vast difference between the two. Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion. Thinking works its way through problems to conclusions and decisions; worry leaves you in a state of tensely suspended animation.” – Harold B Walker

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it so it goes on flying anyway.” – Mary Kay Ash

“Courage and cowardice are antithetical. Courage is an inner resolution to go forward in spite of obstacles and frightening situations; cowardice is a submissive surrender to circumstance. Courage breeds creative self-affirmation; cowardice produces destructive self-abnegation. Courage races fear and thereby masters it; cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.” – T W Higginson

“I love life! The potential for good far outweighs the potential for bad. And I have faith in people.” – David O McKay

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure word, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – George Eliot

“Thanks is sometimes a mask for ingratitude. True gratitude is expressed in deeds rather than in words.” –

“The only life worth living is the adventurous life. Of such a life the dominant characteristic is that it is unafraid. It is unafraid of what other people think…it does not adapt either its pace or its objectives to the pace and objectives of its neighbors. It thinks its own thoughts, it reads its own books, it develops its own hobbies, and it is governed by its own conscience. The herd may graze where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone.” – Raymond B Fosdick