Leadership is far different than a boss, Leadership leads by example, A boss delegates tasks. Leadership gets things done, whenever you get something done, you influence leadership - influences Leadership is an act of love, Love by doing - attempting to do the right thing Leaders don't look at others for validation. Main 7 leadership principles 1) Identification 2) Clarification 3) Motivation 4) Collaboration 5) Concentration 6) Meditation 7) Relaxation Leadership Identification - Know who you are - self awareness, know your strengths and weaknesses. Leadership Clarification - Know what you want to accomplish, this simple choice frees you from the tyranny of the urgent Leadership Motivation - Know whom you are trying to please you cannot please everybody, even God cannot please everybody. Leadership Collaboration - Work with a small group, work with a team of people. Leadership Concentration - Focus on what is important Distraction is the greatest enemy of leadership Jesus refused to be distracted. Leadership Meditation - listen to God continually, Get alone to pray, Read daily about God. Leadership Relaxation - Take time to recharge. God has a plan for your life, and so does everyone else, if you don't know who you are, You will be trapped by other's expectations. Stress happens if you are trying to be something you are not, uncomfortable in you're own skin. Copying and comparing limits your ability to be you. You will always find someone better and get discouraged, and you will always find someone worse and get prideful. If you are going to be a leader you have to accept being who you are. Whenever you honesty criticize someone with a negative, you need to add a positive at the end to show you love them. How do you turn activity into productivity? Finding its purpose.. Leadership is the art of disappointment, if you say YES to something, you have to say NO to more to others. Jesus - lived for an audience of one, No one can serve two masters. If you wrestle with a pig, you both will get muddy, but only one of you will like it. You don't have to reply to every comment. Criticism is like gum, you chew on it for while and then spit it out. You don't need others approval to be happy, All you need is God's. No one can pressure you without your permission, you know whom you are trying to please. God please show me how may I please you and bring you glory. He that leadith and has no one following him, is only taking a walk. Connect with someone in your small group, a growth partner. God never blessed a one-person show. We don't accept the help of others, because of the insecurity and pride. You always need a battle buddy, that can carry off the field when you get hurt. Jesus did the cross with an iron will, no distractions, how should you look at your goals? Anyone who lets himself get distracted, falls on his face. Temptation - the idea of distraction Inspiration - the idea of direction. Leadership is getting together with people, leaders need time alone to pray. Most of life's problems come from your inability to sit still. The single biggest stress in your life, is when you are disconnected from God - resentment, loneliness etc. comes into your life. Life is a marathon - you need to pace yourself, you need to take vacations to recharge. Rest and recreation, Every 7th day you rest, remember it first up there with don't murder, covet, and commit adultery. Life is meant to be enjoyed - not endured. You have to schedule time off. Success of leadership depends on Divert daily - little fun (hobby) Withdraw daily - Take a day off, away from the world. Abandon annually - a vacation. Distraction is the greatest enemy of leadership. If I had unlimited ability I would be a river helping anyone in needed, Since, I don't, I am a little drip helping anyone I can. EWB What defines a person is inside, not from outside influence, outside influence just lets them be more or less of what they are on the inside. EWB Things greatly simplify and input gets organized when I ask the simple question of who is Lord in my life. EWB Maybe God puts difficult people in your life so you can learn to love them with God's strength and not your own. EWB People get angry when their personal boundaries have been violated. There are two reason, (1) they put unrealistic boundaries in their life, or (2) they put good personal boundaries in place and they need to learn how to respond the situation and not react. EWB Personal boundaries are mental borders that create a separation from you and your environment, demonstrating the knowledge that you are your own entity. EWB A person without boundaries is like a city with broke walls without any defenses. EWB It's not if you win or loose the game, It's how you play it. SpyKids3D Pain that will hurt me and not harm me is good. It is a drop of kindness even though it is hard to cherish in the immediate because it hits you. EWB It's not always possible to learn from others, there are times you have to learn from your mistakes. It makes you appreciate others more and the wealth of information they give you. EWB Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk, time, and effort. Or in other words persistence and purpose. EWB When you lose, don't lose the lesson. The point of imperfection is to learn. EWB Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck, all things are father filtered. EWB Don't let a little dispute injure a great relationship. Relationships last forever, spats last for a drip in time. EWB Open arms to change, but don't let go of your values. God centered values are what hold your life up because they do not change. EWB Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer, or the best way say what needs to be said. EWB Living with a purpose, as you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time. EWB A least once a year, go someplace you've never been before, or do something you have not ever done before. It opens the mind and feeds the soul. EWB Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other. Heavenly love is the act of giving without wanting anything in return. EWB Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it. For God so loved us he gave up his son to heal our mortal sickness of sin so we can humble ourselves and put on immortality and be his sons and daughters. EWB Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon. Dalai Lama The lowest ebb of morality is when people view things as to what is right in their own eyes. They give up on the truth for might makes right and the ends justify the means. EWB When You Hear Something - You Forget It, When You See Something - You Remember It, When You Do Something - You Understand It! - Chinese Proverb True intimacy is only built on the freedom to disagree. EWB Boundary injured people are like slaves of a weak conscience, growth comes from practicing to say "NO". EWB The goal of boundaries is maturity, the ability to love successfully and work successfully. EWB When teaching kids you can go two directions: 1) Say yes to everything and then find out as you go say "NO" causing resentment and rebellion. 2) Put strict boundaries in place and then loosen up a bit and they will love you. EWB Setting Boundaries is an act of stewardship. EWB When climbing the ladder of life you need to take your hands out of your pockets. Mike Clark - M&M Painters Don't get mad, Set a limit. EWB When you react, they are in control, when you respond, you are in control. EWB Be yourself, for this is what you are best qualified for. EWB If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh, If you sow to the spirit, you will reap eternal life from the sprit. unknown Preacher The ultimate power is the ability to control it. EWB Real Power is not to react, but to commit and focus your power for a purpose. EWB Failing to try is the death of learning. EWB Failing and trying again, is how you learn. EWB First pride, then the crash- the bigger the ego, the harder the fall. Rick Warren EGO --> Edging God Out Rick Warren Give people what they need, not what they deserve. Rick Warren When you are proud of yourself, it is because you did it with your own power, Not God's. Rick Warren Selfishness destroys relationships. Rick Warren Self-Less-ness builds relationships. Rick Warren Pride destroys relationships. Rick Warren Humility builds relationships. Rick Warren Insecurity destroys relationships. Rick Warren Love builds relationships. Rick Warren Resentment destroys relationships. Rick Warren Forgiveness builds relationships. Rick Warren Control issues are caused by fear of being intimacy. Rick Warren Insecurity prevents intimacy. Rick Warren Don't join a perfect church, because it won't be perfect any more. Rick Warren You are only as sick as your secrets. Rick Warren If there is a God, why is there so much evil in the world? For there is Good in the world because of God, A world without God, would have no Good within it. EWB God longs for you to discover the life he created you to live - here on earth, and forever in eternity! Rick Warren Community is God's answer to loneliness. Rick Warren Community is God's answer to fatigue. Rick Warren You can't grow without other people in your life. Rick Warren Community is God's answer to defeat. Rick Warren Community is God's answer to despair. Rick Warren God's answer to fear is community. Rick Warren Why we need each other 1) to walk with me 2) to work with me 3) to watch out for me 4) to wait and weep with me 5) to witness with me Rick Warren When you run alone you run fast, when you run with others, your run long. Rick Warren You will burn out in life if you don't have close friends to support you. Rick Warren What the world needs now is love! Rick Warren The reason you're exhausted is that you are trying to do it yourself. Rick Warren Snowflakes are frail, but if enough of them stick together, they can stop traffic. Rick Warren "The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." - John Jay, Castilian Days II, 1872 It is easier for God to steer a car that is already moving, than one sitting still. Rick Warren The worlds priorities 1) Power(Prestige & Popularity) 2) Pleasure (Lust) 3) Possessions (Pride) Moses' Priorities 1) Purpose is more important than popularity 2) People are more important than Pleasures 3) Peace is more important than possessions Rick Warren The secret of Success is PERSISTANCE. The secret of persistence is VISION AND PURPOSE. Rick Warren Your vision determines your values Rick Warren I refuse to live a lie, and not be who God want wants me to be. Rick Warren No one can ruin your life without your permission. Rick Warren Blame is another word for being lame or B-LAME. Rick Warren Leaders lead by example. Rick Warren To be a leader you must: 1) Know who you are, accept your unique identity 2) You must accept responsibility 3) You must set priorities 4) You must focus on the eternity of your action Rick Warren You are what you believe, You believe who you are, You act according to how you believe, You think according to how you believe, You see according to how you believe, You hear according to how you believe, You smile according to how you believe, You can change you state accordingly, You can change according to how you believe, You are that which you are! Free to choose.... EWB It is the purposes of the creator within us that makes us powerful, Not our purpose to do something for him. EWB We cannot master everything, for that distinguishes us from the creator. EWB To them who can master themselves, is better than those that can run a country. EWB Zip the lip and stay out of trouble! EWB Better is a frozen dinner with love, than a four course meal with wine and contention. EWB Wisdom can save your life and many others, Money can only buy one if it is for sale. EWB It amazing how much one can see with the ears. EWB There are only two things you can take with you from earth. What you have learned and the relationships you have. And the nice thing you don't need to worry about a u-haul. EWB Christians see the world a little different than the norm. They see the Holy Spirit bringing perfection from God into man and thereby being a direct creation of God, or sons of God. They see the conquering of the sickness of sin and death as an ultimate humbling of oneself that they are not perfect, needing to understand man's predicament is so bad requiring a perfect sacrifice that the Messiah Jesus would love them so much to lay down his life for them so they may be turned from the gates of hell and judgement. Then they are to live God's instructions like father to son. Where eventually the Christian will be refined into the perfect image of God himself father like son. The essence of their God is Love itself: kindness, truth, joy, charity, patience, faithfulness, treating others as you would want to be, and more. - Unknown If the world was a perfect place, I would not be qualified to live in it. EWB In an imperfect world, you have the ability to shine brightly, in a perfect world everyone shines brightly. EWB Which has more merit, and will add to community? Having people who choose wisely and justly-some better than others, or people who are told what to choose and when so they remain stupid. EWB God gave man the freedom to choose, anyone or organization who tries to take away that freedom, steps on the creator's toes and design. Do they not know that if man could not choose he would be a dumb robot or a tool. Maybe they should put more effort in teaching how to choose well. EWB Prayer is similar to asking for air support to an infantryman. EWB Never underestimate the power of prayer. EWB Love cannot be killed, It stands right up after being dead for three days to prove a point. It lays down its life for its friends. It demonstrates the way of life by example. It gets up when all else fails. It makes communities and intimacy. It gives us hope and a way to walk. It holds you in its arms when you cannot walk any longer. EWB Love creates things from nothing. It gives life, and nurtures it. It does not deal with scarce resources, but makes lessons with wisdom and knowledge. EWB Love puts others first, It has no pride, no arrogance, no bragging, no self-centeredness, no class structure, it sees things as they are. It is as it is. EWB The power in Love is that it does not give up. EWB Love does not guarantee success, it just gets right back up and tries again. EWB Love kills fear and enables trust and community. EWB The cause of many peoples problems is fear. EWB In negotiation, Better are kind words and sticking to the merits, than using emotional sledgehammers to attempt results. Most likely you will find yourself in the same seat the next cycle. Its better to deal with smiles than scowls. EWB We should not ask why God is punishing us for this problem that has come, But, rather seek to understand the problem and look for resources to solve it. For once one has solved the problem one can begin to understand its lessons. EWB Problems in life show us who we are, How desperate our hearts can become, Shock us to see how low we can go, To get us to change for the better. EWB Being in property management is like having a degree in baby-sitting. EWB We are blessed to be blessing others. Rick Warren When we bless others, God takes care of our needs. Rick Warren The more we bless others, the more God blesses us. Rick Warren The more we are blessed, the more is expected from us to help others. EWB One of the hardest battles is when someone does you wrong, you do them good, EWB Some people will still not like you, even if every time they meet you they are better off. EWB Some people would rather live in ignorance, than know what is really going on. EWB The best friend you have can tell it to your face. EWB Life is too short to beat around the bush, Let me have it directly good or bad and keep it simple, I am not smart enough to figure out what you mean. EWB Finding the truth is a continuous practice. EWB The Truth is more dangerous to a person who thinks he has it. EWB It took science hundreds of years to get over the bias that the world is not flat. How much time will it take the scientific community to figure out that DNA is programming code, and Quantum Mechanics are a study of a created digital universe. EWB Quantum Mechanics gives a 10 dimensional universe, 4 are knowable, 6 are smaller than 10 to the -32, Suits me right, I have ten fingers and live in 10 dimensions, EWB From Quantum Mechanics we get that time is digital, From Astronomy we get the concept of black hole, Technically a black hole is a location where time stands still, thereby disappearing from a time view, or a zero time well. EWB The higher the elevation, the slower time becomes. This is why the atomic clock in Greenwich England ticks at a faster rate than the one at a high elevation in Bolder Colorado. EWB They discovered if you send 2 synchronized cesium clocks on different planes going opposite directions around the globe one will gain time and the other will lose time proving Einstein's theory. EWB They discovered that in the center of every galaxy is a black hole, the size of the black hole is directly dependent on the size of the galaxy or the other way around. EWB Temptation starts in the head and beats on the doors of action, The more you think about resistance, the more futility of desperation, If you don't like the radio show, you don't have to listen, change the channel, don't give it the dignity of a single thought! EWB All truth is accountable to its maker and he cares for it and records it, making accountability a truth in its self. EWB The higher the cost, The smaller the percentage, The larger the revenue. EWB There is no difference in managing, Trillions, Billions, Millions and a Dollar, Just a decimal point change. EWB Observing Really Powerful People: When they are confronted...they Love When they are insulted...they Pray When they are neglected...they Encourage When they are Rejected...they Forgive When they are Applauded...they Hope EWB Life is all about control issues, There seem to be 3 kinds: 1-Letting things go out of control, 2-Trying to take control and getting frustrated, 3-Giving up the control to a higher power. EWB Starting a quarrel is like opening a floodgate. Tom Holladay Being gentle means power under control. Like a rocket, power directed is much more useful than an explosion on the launch pad. EWB All of us are a slave to something, Just make it a good and big something! EWB Life is the preparation for eternity. EWB The master engineer is a hilarious. He put a dog's smile on its rear end, and you can still see it! EWB The waves of love pound against us, Don't you know, it's the beat of life, It's a song that is alive, In the middle of the darkest night, Ever moving us forward with life, Pushing down walls, driving around town, Taking us a love story that is Alive! EWB Few can understand the wisdom of a poor man, A poor man has had his blinders ripped off and his character is fully exposed, He lives a life where all things and choices have incredible costs. While the rich man does not enjoy those consequences unless he is crushed. EWB A classroom is littered with small objects used to discover the meaning of huge concepts, Look for them in life, They are everywhere! EWB How do we see the between the lines, Understanding the big picture! EWB If this world is one big classroom, Why do we talk more than we listen? EWB The biggest problem between people is communication. Most people are talking when they should be listening. EWB Holding grudges and gossip is similar to Collecting other peoples trash And bringing it inside your own home. EWB Habits are the patterns for success or failure, Only you make them and you break them. EWB Secret of Success, 10% goes to charity 10% of income goes into savings, 80% is to enjoy EWB Being yourself is, Taking life as it is. EWB Success is 90% failure and 10% striking gold! EWB There is always hope, If you can still get up and try again. EWB There is a new way to life, Leaving what we knew yesterday behind, For what we discovered today. EWB Money does grow on trees, So does monopoly money, So does fire wood, So does salvation, So does construction materials, So does gum, fruit, and shade. EWB If software was like a car, When your car breaks down, you would simply turn it off, open the door, get out, and then get back in and the car would start back up. EWB Life is like an apple, Whose fruit is filled with learning and character building, And depending how it is planed, its seeds give life again after it is consumed. EWB If man was not to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, why was it planted in the center of the garden? And what is with the marketing/salesman to push things along? EWB The beauty of Love is beyond my understanding, Its cost is unmeasurable and cannot be purchased, It gives abundantly without asking anything in return, Its caring tenderness and honesty take my breath, This is the one thought sends me to my knees. EWB How to you find the finger print of the creator, He would need to be outside of our time and space, Would demonstrates this to us by telling us with 100 percent accuracy the future before it happens. EWB The average man and woman lives 30,000 days, It really makes one think! EWB Logic and common sense can only take you so far, Love, Faith, and Belief require more, They bend knowledge into a single thought, That includes a simple understanding of all things. EWB You can discover more about a person, In an hour of play than hours of working. EWB Friends stand together, In fun or in heartache One picks the other up. EWB Truth is where the deed and word become one. Chuck Missler Love is the choice, Faith is a choice, Belief is a choice. EWB Free will is the most terrifying gift of all, You hold your eternal life in the palm of choice, Choose life and drink living water. EWB Finding something that does not change, Is simply worth holding on to. EWB You are what you think, You are that what you believe, You are that what you do, You are what you decide to be, You have the gift of free will. EWB Making dreams come true is an act of God, Making a change is an act of you! EWB To learn is a choice To love is a choice To live is a choice EWB We can make a change, We can make a difference, We can make this world place better place! (Popular Song) Is not true Love when one gives without requiring anything in return, Thereby love becomes so costly and precious, it is un-purchasable.... EWB If you cheat even a little, you won't be honest with greater responsibilities. EWB Like an autopilot guiding a boat. The more one moves the wheel, over time the boat returns to its heading. So are a persons habits, unless they change their auto pilot heading. EWB Like hunger tells you to go get something to eat, Worry is an internal alarm to tell you to go do something useful. EWB Worry is like digging a pit and filling it in. Just a lot of work for nothing. EWB Surfing is a business education, You have to work, look, and position to catch the wave, but once you get one it propels you without effort. EWB A baby only knows only how to take and be satisfied, Once we mature we begin to understand the riches of giving. EWB You have to look up to something or someone, Make it beyond belief or understanding. EWB Life is like finding a diamond, and then figuring out what to do with it and how much it is worth. EWB I find fascinating the books that haven't gone out of print for thousands of years, versus the technical books that are outdated before they even hit the press. EWB Success can only happen when you understand failure. EWB Success in life is finding purpose. EWB If life were about an eye for an eye, we would all be blind. EWB Until you have been forgiven, Mercy to a judge does not make sense. EWB I was told once that prayer was calling in the heavy artillery to soften up the enemy. EWB Patients is a better understanding of the big picture. EWB Be patient, sometimes it takes kids and the big kids some time before the synapse grows to where 1 and 1 make 2. EWB Even though you are upset, Don't let them or your kids know where your goat is tied. EWB A kind answer makes life go so much easier. EWB Never get between a bear robed of her cubs, or a rich man and his money. EWB If one becomes what they worship, I choose to Love, It cannot be bought and never gives up. EWB When you play monopoly you laugh at all the play money you can make, Well you don't seen a Hearst pulling a u-haul do ya! I guess life has its simple moments of use it or loose it. EWB Its simple, kill evil by doing good. EWB In navigation all things are in relationships with one another. You cannot navigate from here to there without the help of another. Well is life great or what? EWB Why am I an optimist, Well God says it will all work out in the end. EWB Be yourself, there is not time to be someone else. EWB Usually things marketed with the most noise, are the things that are deceptive. EWB Without the gift of ownership a free market economy cannot exist, Without the gift of free will love cannot exist. EWB if 90% is deemed failure and 10% deemed success, Forgiveness plays a large part in life. EWB Its great to hang around friends that sharpen your mind. It's even better to hang around friends that sharpen your life! EWB Life is not what you make it, It is all about who you know and your relationship with them. EWB The standard business strategy comes from the sport biker. Follow the leader and at the end of the race, bolt for the finish. EWB Humility is the art of learning, EWB We have but enough time to scratch the surface. EWB To learn is to understand you know nothing. EWB Pattern recognition is intense learning, It allows for math, music, and language, It is also for learning of the larger within something smaller. EWB There is nothing like a spouse, telling you the way it is when you are wrong 90% of the time. But, remember and have mercy the 10% being right is so successful it makes up for 900% being wrong. EWB Like two raging rivers joining Are two people getting married, Each going their own way till they collide, sending up a roaring and churning river flowing to smooth waters. Its an awesome site as two become one. EWB How do you find truth, Test it and test it and test it! EWB In order to understand your creator's relationship with you, you just have to get married. EWB Children have an uncanny way of getting to the truth of the matter. EWB Only two kinds of people can understand multidimential thinking, Scientists who have unlearned, and children, EWB If life were created from a simple cell structure, an organism could evolve into a different species. Well, it does not look like it was so simple, I guess, if the DNA information told the thing to evolve, well, I guess it would! EWB It took 60 years from when the Wright Bros. flew to when we landed on the moon. I wonder where we are now? EWB If quantum mechanics shows us that time is quantized or digital, what does this say about our world? EWB If scientists say the speed of light is slowing down, How does this affect carbon dating from billions of billions of years? EWB Political sighted thinking brought us a square planet and that ships could fall off the edge, It is usually not the actual boundaries that hold us in place, but the boundaries we impose on ourselves. EWB If the universe is basically empty, The planet is getting more crowded, Why don't we just spread out a bit. I wonder if it was made that way for a reason? EWB If everyone on the planet picked up a single stone and moved it, it would be the equivalent of moving Mount Everest. EWB The more a person thinks of himself, The more he has gone off the deep end! EWB It takes less time to get to Mars, than for Columbus to sail to America. EWB It's funny, The more people involved, The less common sense is involved. EWB Which came first the chicken or the egg?.... The power of information my friends, that's what its about! Jurassic Park (Dinosaur DNA) If the finger print of the maker is the ability to tell about things before they happen with complete accuracy. At times it would be nice to read ending of the book. EWB If your business plan is built on bad assumptions, It will collapse and never recover, How so different is life? EWB If man is created in the image of his Maker, Without a maker how much is man worth? EWB I once thought I knew something, I went to describe it and found that I left something out. I have been practicing since then. EWB If you want to change the world, Change yourself and the rest will follow. EWB To change how someone reacts to you, you must first change yourself and how you react to them, EWB Unless you know something you probably should keep away from the words NEVER and ALWAYS. EWB If our planet is a spinning top, if it spins too slowly we would burn up, If it spins too fast we would freeze, If it were closer to the sun we burn up, If it were farther from the sun we would freeze, Hey, who did this? I am taking names... EWB In a simulation the level of success, failure and learning, is controlled by one pressing the buttons, And life is different how? EWB Making false accusations and calling names is the last straw and a distraction from a loosing argument. EWB If within a few milliseconds a mile long DNA strand can unravel and close back up without a tangle, I have a lot of practicing to do with my garden hose. EWB If you can look at a Pepsi can and say evolution made that, You are lucky, it did not include DNA and particle physics. EWB If Angels disguise themselves in human form, I wonder how many you and I have met? EWB If you are not forgiven much, you will never know how to love much. EWB If you have a friend in need, Why do you ask what can I do for you? Just do something without asking! EWB Some days it seems I open my mouth just to change feet. EWB To love much is to be forgiven much. EWB There is no deadlier poison than Words, There is no greater healer than words. EWB If everything comes easy, So does the fall. EWB You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do! Author: Bob Richards Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose! Author: Max Schmelling What we see depends mainly on what we look for. Author: Sir John Lubbock Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be. --Napolean Hill If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed Kate Halverson Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Robert Frost Beware of small expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. Benjamin Franklin If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill, Sir If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The best mirror is an old friend. Author: George Herbert I get by with a little help from my friends. --John Lennon A friend is one who walks in when others walk out --Walter Winchell It takes twenty years to become an overnight success. --Eddie Cantor Behind every successful person there's a lot of unsuccessful years. --Bob Brown The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. --Michael Althsuler When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us Author: Helen Keller You can't have everything, where would you put it? Author: Steven Wright The road to success is always under construction. --Unkown Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach Einstein Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge. Einstein If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Einstein If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut Einstein I want to know God's thoughts...the rest are details Einstein The road to a friend's house is never long Author: Danish Proverb True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost Author: Charles Caleb Colton The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. Author: William Blake The only way to have a friend is to be one Author: Ralph Waldo Emmerson A sinning man will stop praying. A praying man will stop sinning. (Leonard Ravenhill) There are two kinds of people: Those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." (C.S. Lewis) The refiner is never very far from the mouth of the furnace when His gold is in the fire. (Charles Spurgeon) Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you will get neither. (C.S. Lewis) Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. -Napoleon Bonaparte If you are going to be original, you are going to be wrong a lot. -Anon Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. - Edward de Bono Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -Alfred North Whitehead You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -Henry Ford The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges. -Martin Luther King Jr. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it. -Washington Irving "My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him." - Emily Dickinson Its amazing how nieve highly educated people can be. The bigger the lie the more believable it becomes. EWB How many nations on earth have taxed themselves into prosperity? None... Unknown IRS Agent Blame keeps a person from seeing what God can do. Tom Holladay If the account of creation is true and the heavens and Earth was build in 6 days, I cannot fathom how fast he can fix my little problems, if I just let go of them. EWB What is man's worth, if all are created in the image of God? EWB "It is hard to be silent, silent with my mouth, but even more, silent with my heart." Henri Nouwen "In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour the soul will often make more progress than in days of company with others." Andrew Bonar We are here to prepare for ETERNITY! Rick Warren Money is like fertilizer, if you leave it in one place it just starts to stink, if you spread it around things tend to grow. Tom Holladay Man would hate it if he drove the same color and kind of car as everyone else, or worse ware the same color and kind of clothes as everyone else, so why in the world would he complain that all the people on the planet don't look like himself? Duh? EWB Giving a free fish does not always benefit the receiver. What some people get for free, they do not respect or appreciate what it cost, or even the giver, which does not help them understand the reality of their situation. EWB Generosity is a byproduct the man with faith For he knows that what he gives will come back to him from an act of the creator. EWB Much evidence shows the more a social group focuses on education and group cooperation, the faster they help each other get out of poverty. EWB In a simulation when you steal or cut corners you are actually taking from your experience and yourself. EWB Poverty and Wealth are only separated by a line drawn on the ground. At times we have to hop in and out to get to where we need to go. EWB Magic and an illusion are one in the same, Its marketing, they try to draw your attention with something that is not true. EWB If you like saving or finding what is lost You are a good candidate to help others. EWB A car you can drive almost anywhere, So can your imagination, Too much of it can become a distraction. EWB Humility is always listening for help, Pride does not listen and suffers like the nieve. EWB Donuts are usually circular, So is your life until you learn from it. EWB A teacher can only show you to the water, You actually have to get down to drink it. EWB If goofing up one of the 10 commandments shows man's failure, No man can stand, the question is who will and who can? EWB Life seems like a smelters pot, You are boiled by problems till all your impurities are gone and only ready when the creator can see his own image in your life. EWB In a simulation everything seems real, but you miraculously survive no matter what. EWB Rest is freeing your mind for the next task. EWB Education is working with what you are given. EWB All communication is based on common set of references, Maybe the world is so complicated and confusing because we are. EWB The secret of man's success, Trying to build it himself and when everything goes wrong, cry out to the creator and ask for his words. The secret of the creators success, Give man a manual to read, be amused at watching him not read it and see what he does with the pieces, answer his cries for help and show him where the answer is in the manual. EWB The secret of a good education, Putting the good teacher first and everything else will come. EWB Yea try to tell me this world is not one big education program, The educator first whispers what should be listened to, Then if you don't listen, plan 2, is causing your world to fall until you are all ears. EWB In order to educate someone, you need to show the pupil that he has a weakness or some kind of need not yet fulfilled. EWB Education can only be taught in a world that is lacking. Therefore this imperfect world is built for our education. EWB The trap of temptation or rapid education is only possible, if you have not yet been given what you so desire and others have been. EWB Everything grows and gets life though love. EWB Perfect Wisdom, Perfect Beauty, Perfect Knowledge, Perfect Understanding, and Perfect Song and Dance without love, it is like a library with nothing to do. EWB Truth is when the word and the deed become one. Chuck Missler Life is like a rotting apple, But inside are the seeds of the eternal growing and waiting to be born. EWB Happiness cannot be gained with all the money in the world, Its lies with your accountability to your maker and your love of your neighbor. EWB Success is not what you get with your own hands, It's what you are given and your accountability to the giver. EWB If you don't know how far from perfect you are, Try practicing it, and count how many times you run short. Well maybe life is not that long... EWB If you live on your own strength, time and circumstance will have you, If you have someone to help you, they can pick you up when you fall. EWB Those that don't say much usually know what is going on because they are all ears. EWB Deception is the chief cornerstone of falling on your face. EWB What do the eyes and barren womb have in common? They are never satisfied. EWB The hardest thing about love is its unpurchaseable cost and its ability to never surrender. EWB The problems with this world is that not many people help one another. EWB WILLINGNESS "The world is a better place as a result of Michelangelo's not having said, 'I don't do ceilings.'" - Edward McCabe WORDS "Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words makes them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer." - Blaise Pascal WORK "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." - John Ruskin WORRY "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." - Mark Twain VALOR "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena: whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt VICTORY Martin Luther was asked one time how he overcame the devil. He replied: "Well, when he comes knocking upon the door of my heart, and asks, 'Who lives here?' The dear Lord Jesus goes to the door and says, 'Martin Luther used to live here but he has moved out. Now I live here.' The devil, seeing the nail-pierced hands, and the nail-pierced side, takes flight immediately." VICTORY "We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat." - Queen Victoria VISION "Vision is the world's most desperate need. There are no hopeless situations, only people who think hopelessly." - Winifred Newman VISION "Make no little plans: They have no magic to stir men's blood." - Daniel H Burnham VISION "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery TEACHABLE "Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon." - Alexander Pope TEAMWORK "In order to have a winner, the team must have a feeling of unity; every player must put the team first - ahead of personal glory.' - Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant TEAMWORK "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin TEAMWORK "Some people believe you win with your five best players, but I found out that you win with the five who fit together best." - Red Auerbach TEAMWORK "Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games." - John Wooden TEAMWORK "The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style." - Patrick Ewing TEAMWORK "There are people with a lot more talent than I have who have been weeded out of the league because they couldn't put their egos aside to fill a role." - Kurt Rambis TELEVISION "I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book." - Groucho Marx "Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room." - Red Skelton THOUGHT "We should not only use all the brains we have, but all that we can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson THOUGHT "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." - General George S. Patton, Jr. THOUGHT "Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going." - Albert Einstein THOUGHT "He who has no opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave." - Friedrich Klopstock TIME "In primitive societies, no one has a watch, but everyone has time. In advanced societies, everyone has a watch, but no one has any time." - Gerhard Geschwandtner TRAINING "The only thing worse than training employees and losing them, is not training them and keeping them." - Zig Ziglar TREATMENT OF WOMEN "Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he can not elevate her without at the same time elevating himself." - Alexander Walker TOLERANCE "God reserves the right to use people who disagree with me." - Robert A. Cook SACRIFICE A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing. - Martin Luther SECURITY "If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford SELF-AWARENESS "I have more trouble with D.L. Moody than with any other man I know." - D.L. Moody SELF-CONFIDENCE "Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face... You must do that which you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt SERVICE "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 have sought and found a way to serve." - Albert Schweitzer SERVANTHOOD "There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being-to help someone succeed." - Alan Loy McGinnis SIGNIFICANCE "One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in my bank account, or what my clothes looked like. But one hundred years from now the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child." - Anonymous SIGNIFICANCE "If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work on men's immortal minds, if we impress on them high principles, the just fear of God, and love for their fellowmen, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity." - Daniel Webster SIMPLICITY "The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all." - Richard J. Foster SPIRITUALITY "We're not just human beings having a temporary spiritual experience. But we're spiritual beings having a temporary human experience." - Teilhard de Chardin, French Priest STATUS "Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like." - Will Rogers SUCCESS "It seems to me shallow and arrogant for any man in these times to claim he is completely self-made, that he owes all his success to his own unaided efforts. Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements." - Walt Disney SUCCESS "Our goal as believers is not success as the world defines it. Our goal should be obedience to our Heavenly Father. And one of the greatest byproducts of obedience is "success" as He defines it. This is the greatest reward." - Greg Glassford SUCCESS "You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity." - O.A. Battista SUCCESS "As far as I can remember, being a celebrity has never helped me make a good picture ... or command the obedience of my daughter, or impress my wife. It doesn't even seem to help keep fleas off our dog, and if being a celebrity won't give one an advantage over a couple fleas, then I guess there can't be that much in being a celebrity after all." - Walt Disney SUCCESS "The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off." - Tacitus SUCCESS "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value." - Albert Einstein SUCCESS The best place to succeed is where you are with what you have. - Charles M Schwab SUCCESS "Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities and let the nice things come out." - Barbara Walters SUCCESS "Be awful nice to 'em going up, because you're going to meet them coming down." - Jimmy Durante READING "The person who won't read has no advantage over the person who can't." - Rev. Clifford Warren, Welsh clergyman READING "Do not deny yourself the help of good books on the subject of your lessons. Buy, borrow or beg, if necessary, but obtain somehow the help of the best thinkers, enough at least to stimulate your own thought; but do not read without thinking. If possible, talk the lesson over with an intelligent friend; collision often brings light." - John Milton Gregory READING "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." - Atwood H. Townsend RESISTANCE "Learn to say 'no.' It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." - Charles Spurgeon RESPECTABILITY "Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously." - Hubert Humphrey RESPONSIBILITY "The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill RESPONSIBILITY "This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that! After all, it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody because Nobody had wound up doing what Anybody could have done!" - Author Unknown RETALIATION "People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes." - Abigail Van Buren REVIVAL Gypsy Smith was once asked how to start revival. He answered: "Go home, lock yourself in your room, and kneel down in the middle of the floor. Draw a chalk mark all around yourself and ask God to start a revival inside that chalk mark. When he has answered your prayer, the revival will be on." REVIVAL John Wesley was once asked how he got crowds: "I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn." RISK "The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from the shore." - Dale Carnegie QUOTES "The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains, proves that he has no brains of his own." - Charles Spurgeon PARENTING "Before I was married I had three theories about raising children. Now I have three children and no theories." - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester PARTNERSHIP "The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it." - Paul Harvey PARTNERSHIP "I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other." - John D. Rockefeller PARTNERSHIP "Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be." - Charles Brower PARTNERSHIP "It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone." - Andrew Carnegie PAST "The Past is only a point of reference... not a place of residence." - Pastor Dale Evrist PAST "You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past." - Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe PATIENCE The great New England preacher Phillips Brooks was noted for his poise and quiet manner. At times, however, even he suffered moments of frustration and irritability. One day a friend saw him feverishly pacing the floor like a caged lion. "What's the trouble, Mr. Brooks?" he asked. "The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't!" PATIENCE "Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast." - William Shakespeare PEOPLE SKILLS "I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any other ability under the sun." - John D. Rockefeller PEOPLE SKILLS "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie PERSPECTIVE "Two men looked out from prison bars. One saw mud, one saw stars." - Unknown POTENTIAL "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - William Morrow PRACTICALITY "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau PRAYER "Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents." - Oswald Chambers PRAYER "God does nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley PRAYER "Prayer is striking the winning blow. . . . Service is gathering up the results." - S.D. Gordon PRAYER "God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capital stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon earth." - E.M. Bounds PREACHING "A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side - the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other." - Harry Emerson Fosdick PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication." (A corporate memo from telegraph operator Western Union, 1876) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "Everything that can be invented, has been invented." (U.S. Patent Office Commissioner Charles Duell, 1899) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad." (The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer Horace Rackham not to invest in the Ford Motor Company. 1903) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (Response from associates of RCA founder David Sarnoff, circa 1920's, when he proposed investing in the young radio industry) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "[Television] won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." (Twentieth Century-Fox studio boss Darryl F. Zanuck, 1946) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "There will never be a bigger plane built." (A Boeing engineer after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that carried ten people) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the U.S. market." (Business Week, August 2, 1968) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C' the idea must be feasible." (Yale University management professor's comment on a paper written by Fred Smith proposing an overnight delivery service, circa early 1970's. Smith went on to start Federal Express) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "That kid can't play baseball." (Milwaukee Braves minor league manager Tommy Holmes, 1952, appraising Henry Aaron, who went on to break Babe Ruth's all-time record for home runs) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "He'll never be any good." (Baltimore Colts owner Robert Irsay, 1983, evaluating future Pro Bowl and Super Bowl champion quarterback John Elway) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "You will never amount to very much." (A Munich teacher to a ten-year-old Albert Einstein, 1889) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "Can't act. Can sing. Balding. Can dance a little." (MGM executive, 1929, about Fred Astaire's screen test) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck." (Grand Ole Opry manager Jim Denny, 1954, firing Elvis Presley after one performance) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out." (Decca Recording Company, 1962, upon turning down the Beatles) PREDICTIONS GONE WRONG "Get rid of the pointed ears guy." (NBC television executive to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, 1966, recommending the new show eliminate the Vulcan character Mr. Spock) PRIDE "Let pride go afore, shame will follow after." - George Chapman PRIDE "Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, 'Something is out of tune.'" - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) PRINCIPLE "In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson PRODUCTIVITY "Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done." - James Ling PROGRESS The Australian coat of arms pictures two creatures - the emu, a flightless bird, and the kangaroo. The animals were chosen because they share a characteristic that appealed to the Australian citizens. Both the emu and the kangaroo can only move forward, not back. The emu's three-toed foot causes it to fall if it tries to go backwards, and the kangaroo is prevented from moving in reverse by its large tail. Those who truly choose to follow Jesus become like the emu and the kangaroo, moving only forward, never back. PROGRESS "Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant PROGRESS "I walk slowly, but I never walk backwards." - Abraham Lincoln PURPOSE "There are two great days in a person's life -- the day we are born and the day we discover why." - William Barclay PURPOSE "The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives." - Albert Schweitzer PURPOSE "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." - Washington Irving OBSERVATION "As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegie OPPORTUNITY "To young men who are looking for an opportunity and who complain there is no opening for them, permit me to say this: 'Go where the poor and the under-privileged are. They will be glad to hear you. When you have learned to bless them, others will be calling for your services. Don't wait for opportunity to come walking up to you. Go to meet it.'" - Gordon Lindsay OPTIMISM "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Helen Keller OUTLOOK "Outlook determines outcome." - Warren Wiersbe MAJORITY "A man with God is always in the majority." - John Knox MANHOOD "According to statistics, if a man is the first in his family to accept Christ, 93 percent of his family members will follow his example." - Baptist Press MARRIAGE "Marriage is when you agree to spend the rest of your life sleeping in a room that's too warm, beside someone who's sleeping in a room that's too cold." - Unknown MARRIAGE "A good marriage is the union of two forgivers." - Ruth Bell Graham. MARRIAGE "My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me." - Winston Churchill MARRIAGE "There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate." - Margaret Mead MATURITY "The popular notion is that maturity comes with age. Not true. You get old with age. Maturity comes with the acceptance of responsibility in every area of your life." - Ed Cole MIRACLES "Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist!" - David Ben Gurion MONEY "A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." - Jonathon Swift MOTIVATION "It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best." - Hakeem Olajuwon LAUGHING "You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard LEADERSHIP "The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will be boss." - Carl Wood LEADERSHIP "Leadership requires fellowship and following is an act of trust, faith in the course of the leader, and that faith can be generated only if leaders act with integrity." - Lawrence Miller LISTENING "The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them." - Ralph Nichols LISTENING "When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. - Jared Sparks LOVE "The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!" - Charles Clayton Morrison KINDNESS "Three things in life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. - Henry James KNOWLEDGE "There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men." - Lee Iacocca JOY "Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God." - Teilhard de Chardin IDEAS "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo IDEALISM VS. REALISM "Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension." - Rick Warren IMAGINATION "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein INDISPENSABILITY "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle INFERIORITY "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission." - Elanor Roosevelt INFLUENCE "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man." - Thomas Alva Edison INTEGRITY "He errs, as other men do, but he errs with integrity." - Benjamin Franklin (speaking of George Washington) INTEGRITY "Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are." - John Maxwell INTEGRITY "I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what I light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." - Abraham Lincoln INTEGRITY "Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path, and the only one upon which you will never get lost." - M.H. McKee INTELLECT "We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. - Albert Einstein HAPPINESS "Some cause happiness wherever they go, others whenever they go." - George Burns HAPPINESS "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." - Abraham Lincoln HELP "When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton HELPING OTHERS "There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being-to help someone succeed." - Alan Loy McGinnis HOPE "There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them." - Clare Booth Luce HUMILITY Alex Haley, the author of Roots, has a picture in his office, showing a turtle sitting atop a fence. The picture is there to remind him of a lesson he learned long ago: "If you see a turtle on a fence post, you know he had some help." Says Alex, "Any time I start thinking, "Wow, isn't this marvelous what I've done!" I look at the picture and remember how this turtle - me - got up on that post. HUMILITY "The wise person possesses humility. He knows that his small island of knowledge is surrounded by a vast sea of the unknown." - Harold C Chase HUMILITY "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Benjamin Franklin GENEROSITY "The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." - Hada Bejar GENIUS "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift GOD AND COUNTRY "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." - George Washington GOD AND COUNTRY "If we abide in the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper, but if we or our prosperity neglects it instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity." - Daniel Webster GOOD WORKS "Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as you ever can." - John Wesley GOSSIP "If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth GRATITUDE "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain GREATNESS "Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." - Oliver Wendell Holmes FAMOUS LAST WORDS When the great Christian and scientist, Sir Michael Faraday, was dying, some journalists questioned him as to his speculations about life after death. "Speculations!" he said, "I know nothing about speculations. I'm resting on certainties. 'I know that my redeemer liveth, and because He lives, I shall live also.'" FAMOUS LAST WORDS Martin Luther said: "Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death." FAMOUS LAST WORDS John Knox said: Live in Christ, live in Christ, and the flesh need not fear death. FAMOUS LAST WORDS John Wesley said: "The best of all is, God is with us. Farewell! Farewell!" FAMOUS LAST WORDS Charles Wesley said: "I shall be satisfied with thy likeness -- satisfied, satisfied!" FAMOUS LAST WORDS Adoniram Judson said: "I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet when Christ calls me home, I shall go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school." FAMOUS LAST WORDS John Pawson said: "I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!" FAMOUS LAST WORDS When Benjamin Franklin was about to die, he asked that a picture of Christ on the cross should be so placed in his bedroom that he could look, as he said, "upon the form of the Silent Sufferer." He wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: "The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, it's contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here...Yet the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by the Author." FANATICISM "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill FAILURE "Failure is an event, never a person." - William D. Brown FAILURE "What does not destroy me makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche FAILURE "Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently." - Henry Ford FAILURE "Learn from the mistakes of others; you can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt FAITHFULNESS "I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness." - Mother Teresa FATIGUE "Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - Vince Lombardi FEAR "It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear." - E. H. Harriman FEAR "Never take counsel of your fears. - Andrew Jackson FEAR "He who is afraid of a thing gives it power over him." - Moorish Proverb FEAR "He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on rock because the wind and rain ruined his house on the sand." - Constance Naden FINISHING "The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him." - Fan The Flame, J. Stowell, Moody, 1986, p. 32. FORGIVENESS Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronald Reagan said that her dad made a lasting impression on her the day after the assassination attempt of 1982. She says, "The following day my father (Ronald Reagan) said he knew his physical healing was directly dependent on his ability to forgive John Hinckley. By showing me that forgiveness is the key to everything, including physical health and healing, he gave me an example of Christ-like thinking." - The QuoteLetter, December, 1996 FORGIVENESS Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was reminded one day of a vicious deed that someone had done to her years before. But she acted as if she had never even heard of the incident. "Don't you remember it?" her friend asked. "No," came Barton's reply, "I distinctly remember forgetting it." FRIENDSHIP "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." - Walter Winchell FRIENDSHIP "So live that your friends can defend you but never have to." - Arnold Glasow FUN "When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom." - David Ogilvy FUTURE "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln EDIFICATION "Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear then and while their hearts can be thrilled by them." - Henry Ward Beecher EDUCATION "The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after." - Newton D. Baker EDUCATION "Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life." - Henry L. Doherty EDUCATION "I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln EDUCATION "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok EFFORT "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison EGOTISM "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." - Benjamin Franklin ENERGY "I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." - Sherlock Holmes ENERGY "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks ENDURANCE "When you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe ENTHUSIASM "Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks." - Stanley Baldwin ENTHUSIASM Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action. - Henry Chester ENTHUSIASM "Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ENTHUSIASM "Men are nothing until they are excited." - Michel de Montaigne ENTHUSIASM "The world belongs to the energetic." - Ralph Waldo Emerson EXAMPLE "There is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go, and that is to travel that way yourself." - Abraham Lincoln EXAMPLE "Your actions speak so loudly, that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson EXAMPLE "Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer EXAMPLE "Don't worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum EXCELLENCE "Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington EXCELLENCE "If a man is called to be a street sweeper 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. EXCELLENCE "Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston EXCUSES "Getting caught is the mother of invention." - Robert Byrne EXPECTATION "Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Benjamin Franklin EXPERIENCE "The years teach much which the days never know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson DETERMINATION "We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the road will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul upon a certain goal ahead, and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back." - Vince Lombardi DETERMINATION "What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." - Coach Paul Bear Bryant DILIGENCE "Every day in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion, or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa a lion wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up in the morning, you had better be running." - Unknown CHARACTER "Character is the most effective means of persuasion." - Aristotle CHARACTER "Character is power." - Booker T. Washington CHARACTER "Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to stay there." - John Wooden CHARACTER "To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful." - Edward R. Murrow CHARACTER "Character is what you are in the dark." - D.L. Moody CHARACTER "Your character is what you really are. Your reputation is only what others think you are." - John Wooden CHANGE "Many men today will change wives, children, businesses, anything, rather than change themselves. Real men face change and reality." - Ed Cole CHANGE "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw CHANGE "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." - Woodrow Wilson CHRIST-LIKENESS "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi CIRCUMSTANCES "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw COMPASSION "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." - Shakespeare COMPASSION "Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Longfellow COMPETITIVENESS "I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up." - Leo Durocher CONSCIENCE "Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go." - Billy Graham CONSCIENCE Throughout his administration, Abraham Lincoln was a president under fire, especially during the scarring years of the Civil War. And though he knew he would make errors of office, he resolved never to compromise his integrity. So strong was this resolve that he once said, "I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me." "Conscience," said an Indian, "is a three-cornered thing in my heart that stands still when I am good, but when I am bad, it turns around and the corners hurt a lot. If I keep on doing wrong, the corners wear off and it does not hurt anymore." CONDUCT "Resolved: that all men should live to the glory of God. Resolved second: that whether others do or not, I will." - Jonathon Edwards CONSISTENCY "I have observed very frequently that it is not the man who is so brilliant who delivers in times of stress and strain, but rather the man who can keep on going indefinitely doing a good, straightforward job". - D.D. Eisenhower CONTENTMENT "It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." - George Horace Lorimer CONTRIBUTION "When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die." - Eleanor Roosevelt CORRECTION When we as youngsters, would accuse our mother of picking on us her wise reply was, "All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you." - Judith Crist COVETOUSNESS "Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men." - Charles Cale Colton CREATION "I look at the universe and know there's an architect." - Jack Anderson CREATIVITY "In creating, the only hard thing is to begin; a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak." - James Russell Lowell CREATIVITY "Necessity is the mother of invention." - Jonathan Swift CREATIVITY "Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father." - Roger von Oech CREATIVITY "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein. CRITICISM One time many years ago preacher Dwight L. Moody was criticized because of the evangelistic methods he used. Moody replied, "I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it." CRITICISM "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."- David Brinkley CRITICISM "Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, insinuations, and misrepresentations which are uttered against him." - Henry Ward Beecher CRITICISM "If I tried to read, much less answer, all the criticisms made of me, and all the attacks leveled against me, this office would have to be closed for all other business. I do the best I know how, the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing this, down to the very end. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I had been right would make no difference. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me now will not amount to anything." - Abraham Lincoln CRITICISM "Criticism is something you can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle BELIEF "I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God even when He is silent." - Inscription on a wall in a cellar in Cologne, Germany, where Jews who eventually perished were hiding from the Nazis. BELIEF "Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control your future decisions." - Robert H. Schuller BELIEF "I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something people call God. - Carl Jung BENEVOLENCE "Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln BIBLE "Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them." - E. Paul Hovey BOOKS "Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." - Edwin Percy Whipple BOOKS "It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life." - Henry Ward Beecher BOOKS "No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance." - Atwood H. Townsend BOOKS "Do not deny yourself the help of good books on the subject of your lessons. Buy, borrow or beg, if necessary, but obtain somehow the help of the best thinkers, enough at least to stimulate your own thought; but do not read without thinking. If possible, talk the lesson over with an intelligent friend; collision often brings light." - John Milton Gregory ACCEPTANCE "The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for, and deserted by everybody." - Mother Teresa ACCOMPLISHMENT "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And that which I can do, by the grace of God, I will do." - Dwight L. Moody ACCOMPLISHMENT "If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves." - Thomas Edison ACHIEVEMENT "The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist." - J. Harold Wilkins ACHIEVEMENT "Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." - General George S. Patton ACTION "Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future run over him." - Dwight D. Eisenhower ACTION "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci ACTION "The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action." - B.C. Forbes ACTION "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin ACTION "Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly in the distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." - Thomas Carlyle ACTION "I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs." - Frederick Douglass ACTION "The only good thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good man to do nothing." - Edmund Burke ADVENTURE "Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare." - Queen Mother Elizabeth ADVENTURE "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney ADVENTURE "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do...Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain ADVENTURE "The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown." - Ferdinand Magellan, Explorer ADVENTURE "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller ADVERSITY "Adversity introduces a man to himself." - Anonymous AFFIRMATION "Commendation heals; condemnation destroys." - Carl Jung AGE "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford AGE "No matter how many years have passed since I was a boy, I am still that boy, and I will never be able to see myself as being old enough to break my hip in a fall, unless a linebacker landed on top of me. At 50, I know the way of all flesh intellectually, but a part of me still feels as immortal as a child." - Bill Cosby AGE There are four ages of man: (1) When you believe in Santa Claus. (2) When you don't believe in Santa Claus. (3) When you are Santa Claus. (4) When you look like Santa Claus. AGE "Childhood: the time in life when you make funny faces in the mirror. Middle age: the time of life when the mirror gets even." - Unknown AGE "Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes ANONYMITY F.D.R. once said that what he wanted on his staff was young men with a passion for anonymity. ANGER "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools." - Albert Einstein ANGER "Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame." - Benjamin Franklin ANGER "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it." - Marcus Aurelius ANGER "The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough." - Bede Jarrett ANGER "When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry." - Haliburton ANGER "As a girl my temper often got out of bounds. But one day when I became angry at a friend over some trivial matter, my mother said to me, 'Elizabeth, anyone who angers you conquers you.'" - Elizabeth Kenny ANGER "No person is important enough to make me angry." - Carlos Castaneda ANXIETY "Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us." - Billy Graham ANXIETY "Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained." - Robert Albert Bloch ASSOCIATION "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington ASSOCIATION "Tell me with whom thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ASPIRATION "When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." - Leo Burnett ATTITUDE "Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure." - Norman Vincent Peale ATTITUDE "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." - Henry Ford ATTITUDE "Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded." - J.C. Macaulay ATTITUDE "The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill Pride is like a runaway train, You don't know when it will derail and it goes faster and faster with time. Tom Holiday If you are tempted by pleasure Run If you are tempted by possessions give and be thankful If you are tempted by pride serve others EWB Life's 3 temptations: sex, crime, pride Life's 3 solutions: run, giving & thanks, serve others EWB In life, it is that which is unseen that plays a more important role that what can be easily seen. EWB The more lack of knowledge and understanding in a group, The more appearance plays a part in discerning good and evil. EWB The less understanding a person has The more importance chassis color has on a race. EWB A person who complains that one flavor of man is better, is like a piece of clay complaining to its maker. EWB Love is putting your needs above my own. Rick Warren It seems the number one cause of problems is that of too much busyness. Rick Warren Its your job to be your spouses biggest fan. Rick Warren Its your job to bring out the best in your spouse. Rick Warren If one cares, one must stay aware. Rick Warren Sometimes God speaks through your spouse, because that is the closest MEGAPHONE. Rick Warren To Love another human being without receiving anything in return is when little bit of Heaven warms the Earth. EWB We are all related. Lakota Belief Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle Kindness is wisdom. Phillip J. Bailey Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. Marion Wright Edelman Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge. Stephen Levine [about the past] ...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King The harder you fall, the higher you bounce. UNKNOWN Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? Marcel Marceau People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. Elizabeth Kübler-Ross I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings. Hodding Carter, Jr. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on. Robert Frost Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely. The Land Before Time A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Anonymous Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. Braveheart There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia Don't go through life, GROW through life. Eric Butterworth Our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius Antonius For fast-acting relief try s l o w i n g d o w n. Lily Tomlin We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle It's always something . . . Gilda Radner I'm not a teacher, but an awakener. Robert Frost Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born. Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else. Joseph Campbell Remember your dreams. Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Gail Godwin I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. Les Brown Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. Ed Cunningham The future depends on what we do in the present. Mahatma Gandhi Blessed is the influence of one true loving human soul on another. George Eliot Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too. Voltaire If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. Author Unknown It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. Albert Einstein Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. Albert Schweitzer There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential. Rusty Berkus The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E. E. Cummings Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. Michael Jordan Love conquers all. Virgil Our real blessings often appear to us in the shapes of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience, and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. Antoine de Saint Exupery Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours. Anonymous The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. Moliere When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. Charles A. Beard If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Maya Angelou And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine EMBRACE LIFE. Source Unknown A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, SIMPLIFY. Thoreau A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin We think in generalities, but we live in detail. Alfred North Whitehead Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, we were making our way through a herd of hippopotamuses, there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase: REVERENCE FOR LIFE. Albert Schweitzer This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still... Joseph Conrad It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. THOREAU How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. Coco Chanel . . . see without looking, . . . hear without listening, . . . breathe without asking. Auden Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity. ALBERT EINSTEIN-Three Rules of Work A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Lowell There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer He who laughs, lasts. Mary Poole Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. Colin Powell When I left home and faced the realities of the world, I put my thoughts of God in cold storage for awhile, because I couldn't reconcile what I believed, deep inside, with what was going on around me. But that early period, when God was as real as the wind that blew from the sea through the pine trees in the garden; left me with inner peace, which, as I grew older, swelled - until, perforce, I had to open my mind to God again. Jane Goodall Do what you can with what you have where you are. Theodore Roosevelt To generalize is to be an idiot. William Blake Bloom where you are planted. Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ZIGGY Man is free at the moment he wishes to be. Voltaire No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. William Blake Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. Lawrence J. Peter When I grow up I want to be a little boy. Joseph Heller Most people never listen. Ernest Hemingway You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt Little things affect little minds. Benjamin Disraeli There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em. Louis Armstrong Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese. Billie Burke You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Anonymous Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Frank Tyger Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth -- don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. Meryl Streep Should you yield the canyons from the windstorms, you would not see the beauty of their carvings. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith Enthusiasm is contagious. Start an epidemic. ( Seen on a Bumper Sticker ) It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. Gilda Radner Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. Philip Larkin We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. H. W. Arnold Unthankfulness is theft. Martin Luther . . .if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev People only see what they are prepared to see. Ralph Waldo Emerson We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. Lauren Bacall A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. Patricia Neal The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. Beverly Sills My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors. Bette Midler "Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. Louisa May Alcott It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. Leslie Jeanne Sahler He who angers you conquers you. Elizabeth Kenny Australian Nurse We forgive to the extent that we love. Francois de La Rochefoucauld When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em. Harper Lee Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. David Grayson I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten WE CAN ONLY LEARN TO LOVE BY LOVING. Iris Murdoch To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. David Viscott At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It) You will never find time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it. Charles Buxton The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. Goldie Hawn There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. Leo Tolstoy The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. Ralph Waldo Emerson There are no short cuts to any place worth going. Source Unknown The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. Marie Osmond When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. Barbara J. Winter Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. Marian Wright Edelman The country clubs, the cars the boats, your assets may be ample, But the best inheritance you can leave your kids Is to be a good example. Barry Spilchuk If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. Cher My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou There are two ways of spreading light -- to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton You have to find it. No one else can find it for you. Bjorn Borg Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do. Goethe Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower. Shigenori Kameoka As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, THINK BIG. Donald Trump Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it. Katherine Whitehorn Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich. Sir Thomas Browne Now that I'm gone, I tell you; Don't smoke. Whatever you do, don't smoke. Yul Brynner Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. Liz Smith Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light. Jennie Jerome Churchill He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. George Bernard Shaw Don't postpone joy. Bumper Sticker Persons thankful for little things are certain to be the ones with much to be thankful for. Frank Clark You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note. Doug Floyd People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. Earl Nightingale The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. Victor Hugo Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. Emily Kimbrough The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. T.B. Macaulay To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. Helen Keller The more we give of anything, the more we shall get back. Grace Speare A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. Hugh Downs The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. O.A. Battista Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life. Jean Paul Richter There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly. Anne Sophie Swetchine Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swingset, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moonbaths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Drive away fear. Play with everything. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters. SARK Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vista M. Kelly You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. Ethel Barrymore Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. Kathryn Carpenter No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Boothe Luce Failing to plan is planning to fail. Effie Jones One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. Grace Hansen Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Adair Lara Look twice before you leap. Charlotte Bronte To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling. Barbara Walters Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart. Suzanne Nichols Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. Gladys Browyn Stern Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. Roseanne Love is a great beautifier. Louisa May Alcott Beauty's where you find it. Madonna [ VOGUE ] The only place you'll find success before work is in the dictionary. May B. Smith All my life I've wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific. Jane Wagner FlowerEarth by Camilla What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. Alexandra Stoddard Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt Be yourself. Who else is better qualified? Frank J. Giblin II We still do not know one-thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us. Albert Einstein We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. Oliver Wendell Holmes I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. Harper Lee Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly. Frank Tyger Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. English Proverb Service is what life is all about. Marian Wright Edelman Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships. Jodie Foster When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Mary Kay Ash Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Amelia Earhart If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you'll get the best. Begin to live as you wish to live. Unknown Love and you shall be loved. Ralph Waldo Emerson Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. Elizabeth Bowen Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. Wilma Rudolph You must learn to be still in the midst of activity, and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Ghandi I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcott We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. Anne Frank A closed mind is a dying mind. Edna Ferber Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. Barbara Walters We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. Anais Nin There are two ways to learn something, from mistakes others have made or your own. EWB I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure. Anne Baxter Everything bottles down to two questions: who made you? And what do you think about that? EWB Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. Helen Keller What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself. Thomas Sprat It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. Rollo May A person becomes an image of what they worship or continually think about. EWB Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail. Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't be anyone's slogan ~ for you are poetry. Sandra Bullock in 28 Days { Writer's credit: Susannah Grant } Every passing moment is a chance to turn it all around. Penelope Cruz in Vanilla Sky { Writer's credit: Cameron Crowe } What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson I am so impressed with the concept of love. It is so illogical, it surpasses all wisdom and understanding. EWB The best things in life aren't things. Art Buchwald Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Charles R. Swindoll Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. Mignon McLaughlin It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. Ralph Marston The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. Dr. Seuss You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain The place to be happy is here, the time to be happy is now. Robert Ingersoll Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you. Thomas Carlyle Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. John Muir Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important. Milo Bloom It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Tom Robbins One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?' " George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British Playwright It is never too late to give up your prejudices. Henry David Thoreau (Walden) Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live. Joseph Epstein The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own. Benjamin Disraeli If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorski We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Virginia Satir The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell Learn by practice. Martha Graham The hardest thing in life is to say "NO" EWB You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future. Roger Smith Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. William Makepeace Thackeray We need to listen to one another. Chaim Potok You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance. Lee J. Iacocca Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald What is success? It is the persistence of getting up every time you get knocked down. EWB My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written by Disraeli. Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year's time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings. Andre Maurois Exuberance is beauty. William Blake All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others. Michael Carr One who makes no mistakes never makes anything. Source Unknown Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions. Earl Gray Stevens Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present. Source Unknown Pursue worthy aims. SOLON Never give up on anybody. Hubert H. Humphrey To see things in the seed, that is genius. LAO-TZU Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead. Anna Cummins Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. George Herman ("Babe") Ruth Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. Max L. Forman Becoming a star may not be in your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal you can set for yourselves. Bryan Lindsay Accustom children to a true notion of things. George Shelley There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock. Warren G. Harding Hitch your wagon to a star. Ralph Waldo Emerson Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller . . . And some people sing and dance. We boil at different degrees. Ralph Waldo Emerson Living is like licking honey off a thorn. Unknown What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare Look not down but up! Robert Browning The best way out is always through. Robert Frost The ideals which have always shown before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty and truth. Albert Einstein The secret of success is consistency of purpose. Benjamin Disraeli When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. Joseph Campbell Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. Spinoza It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Alexandra Smith HAKUNA MATATA (it means . . . No Worries) Timon & Pumbaa Disney's The Lion King I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right - shame on you. Louis Armstrong When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao-Tzu I am an optimist. God says he has it all worked out with a great ending. That's good news for me. At least someone knows what is going on, because I am confused as hell. EWB Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. Stanislaw Lem Faith is the Desire, ask, believe, receive. Stella Terrill Mann Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates. Stella Terrill Mann If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. Wilson Mizner The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves. -Herbert N. Casson Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do. - George Burns If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. - Benjamin Franklin Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelict. - John Calvin Coolidge With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. -Keshavan Nair One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only love. - Juan de Marco The worst bankrupt in the world is the man who has lost his enthusiasm. Let a man lose everything else in the world but his enthusiasm and he will come through again to success. - H. W. Arnold There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment. -Norman Vincent Peale Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one." - Mark Twain The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - "Mahatma" Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin A day without laughter is a day wasted." - Charlie Chaplin Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." - unknown Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. - Lauren Bacall Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison A home without books is a body without soul." - Marcus Tullius Cicero Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." - Mother Teresa A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Lee Frost Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out." Satchel Paige Do every act of your life as if it were your last." Marcus Aurelius Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. Voltaire Even if you're on the right track, if you stand still you'll get run over by the next train. Will Rogers Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. J.M. Clark Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. Earl of Chesterfield Every thought is a seed. If you plant 'Crab' apples don't count on harvesting 'Golden Delicious'." unknown Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching?" Anon What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight --it's the size of the fight in the dog." Dwight D. Eisenhower Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense Don't count the days, make the days count. anon. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? Abraham Lincoln If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson. If God is outside the bounds of time, He is 100% percent accurate in announcing the past, present, future, and of course he can write. Hopefully we can read. EWB We pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free. Tom Robbins Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. Albert Einstein You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt Slow down and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you. John De Paola Look to this day...for yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision...but today well-lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. unknown The best way to predict the future is to create it. unknown We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." proverb The man who does not read good books is at no advantage over the man who can't read them. Mark Twain The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller Diamonds are only chunks of coal That stuck to their jobs, you see. Minnie Richard Smith Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. Charles Steinmetz Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind. Leonardo da Vinci One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. Hasidic Saying Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?'" 0liver Wendell Holmes Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. Danny Kaye Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. Neils Bohr Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton Contentment: The smother of invention. Ethel Mumford Those who do not plan for the future will have to live through it anyway. Len Fisher Capitalism can change to a dictatorships or social theft type governments when property is controlled by only a few. Because ultimate power corrupts man, Capitalism tries to disburses property into the control of many crea