- Mother Teresa
"When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free."
- Jim Carrey
"This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one..."
- George Bernard Shaw
"We are what we pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"It is difficult to live in the present.
Ridiculous to live in the future. And impossible to live in the past."
-Jim Bishop
"Action springs not from thought. But from a readiness for responsibility."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes
"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
- Thomas Edison
"A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
- Alistair Cooke
"If something comes to life in others because of us,
then we have made an approach to immortality."
- Norman Cousins
"Your current conditions do not reflect your ultimate potential, but rather the size and quality of goals upon which you are currently focusing"
- Unknown
"Make big plans; Aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."
- Daniel Burnham
"I feel the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
- Louis E. Boone
"All human progress is preceded by new questions."
- Anthony Robbins
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."
- Lou Holtz
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
- Amelia Earhart
"Dreams have as much influence as actions."
- Stephane Mallarme
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore Isaac Rubin
"Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open."
- Rose Lane
"Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of with the world looking on."
- Francois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
"The stakes are much too high for government to be a spectator sport."
- Barbara Jordan
"Results? Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know 50,000 things that won't work."
- Thomas A. Edison
"Blessed is the person who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
- George Eliot
"There is no security on this earth: There is only opportunity."
- General Douglas MacArthur
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Max DuPree
"Never measure the height of a mountain, until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
- Dag Hammarskjold
"All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so as of now."
- Pearl S. Buck
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"A hero is a man or woman who defies adversity by doing what he or she believes is right in spite of fear."
- Unknown
"The innovator is not an opponent of the old. He is a proponent of the new."
- Lyle E. Schaller
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
- Rodin
"From now on, any definition of a successful life, must include serving others."
- George Bush
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."
- William Ellery Channing
"Great minds have purposes. Little minds have wishes."
- Washington Irving
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous: It is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
- Thornton Wilder
"Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it."
- Unknown
"The man who is waiting for something to turn up might start on his shirt sleeves."
- Garth Henrichs
"Those who stand for nothing, fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton
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"You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
- Woodrow Wilson
"The highest reward fo a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."
- John Ruskin
"One who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without."
- Goethe
"Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are."
- John Dykes
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece!"
- Unknown
"Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."
- David Starr Jordan
"Never cut down a tree in the wintertime: never make a negative decision in the low time."
- Robert H. Schuller
"It is not doing the things we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do that makes life blessed."
- Goethe
"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
- Will Rogers
"Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear."
- Unknown
