I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

                                    Winston Churchill

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

                                          Art Linkletter

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

                             Theodore Roosevelt

A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.

                              John C. Maxwell

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

                  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

                                   Thomas A. Edison

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

                                       Mother Teresa

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

                                     Brendan Francis

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

                                          Ronald Reagan

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

                                        Edward Teller

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

                           Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

                                 Anthony Robbins

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

                                            Carl Schurz

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

                                     Margaret Mead

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.

                                            Roger Allen

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

                                        Anatole France

All doors open to courtesy.

                                        Thomas Fuller

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

                                  Sir Francis Bacon

The most important things in life aren't things.

                               Anthony J. D'Angelo

There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.

                                  Harold Stephens

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

        Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.

                                    Sandra Swinney

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.

                                     Howard Newton

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

                                       Duke Ellington

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

                                       Elbert Hubbard

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

                                       Russell Hoban

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

                               Albert Schweitzer

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

                             Anthony J. D'Angelo

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

                                    Ben Sweetland

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

                                  Henry van Dyke

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

                                        Mark Twain

If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.

                                Chinese Proverb

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

                                 Albert Schweitzer

The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do.

                                   Thomas A Edison

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

                                    Clay P. Bedford

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

                                       Pablo Picasso

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

                      John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

                        Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

                         Martin Luther King Jr.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

        Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)