"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an Honest Man." 

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. "

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."

"It doesn't matter who you are, or where you came from.

The ability to triumph begins with you. ALWAYS."

"We must not allow our loathing of the tragedies of the past

to become a barrier to a better future."

"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible,

but also for what we do not do."

"He who knows enough is enough will always have enough."

"The only gift is a portion of thyself."

"True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing."

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business

founded on friendship."

”Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”

"There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries."

"Imagination is a poor substitute for experience."

"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes."

-   Peter F. Drucker

"To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable

we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful."

- Edward R. Murrow

"Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle."

- Hakuta, Ken

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"

- Lydia M. Child

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies,

but the silence of our friends."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Destiny is not a matter of chance but of choice. 

Not something to wish for but to attain."

- William Jennings Bryan

"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes

but in having new eyes."

- Marcel Proust

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."

- Vince Lombardi

"The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority."

- Ken Blanchard

"A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."

- Mahatma Gandhi

”It takes a deep commitment to change

and an even deeper commitment to grow."

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

- Thomas Jefferson

"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

- Ralph Marston

"Social justice cannot be attained by violence.

Violence kills what it intends to create."

- Pope John Paul II

"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard,

but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world"

 - Mahatma Gandhi

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.

It is disastrous to confuse them."
- Madeleine L'Engle

"The most common way people give up their power

is by thinking they don't have any."
- Alice Walker

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going"
- Unknown

"People only see what they are prepared to see.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I will be judged at the end of my term on how much I collected,

"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
- Eleanor Roosevelt 

"Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest.....   It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.."
- Lily Tomlin

"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph

than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail."
- Woodrow Wilson

"Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments."
- Rose Kennedy

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,

"It is easy to sit up and take notice.

What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
- Al Batt

"Imagination is the beginning of creation.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine

and at last you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw

”What would you do different if you knew you could not fail?”
- Kim Schmitz

”Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
- Thomas Jefferson

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. 

Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"To maintain a joyful family requires much

from both the parents and the children. 

Each member of the family has to become,

"Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart."
- German Proverb

"The best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person."
- Andy Rooney

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer

"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today."
- Indian Proverb

"Change can either challenge or threaten us...

Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you."
- Marsha Sinetar

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong;

but sometimes it is letting go"
- Herman Hesse

"And think not you can guide the course of love. 

For love, if it finds you worthy, shall guide your course."
- Kahlil Gibran

"Think like a wise man but communicate

in the language of the people."
- William Butler Yeats
 

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.

Giving up is what makes it permanent.

"The price of success is hard work,

dedication to the job at hand, and the determination

that whether we win or lose,

we have applied the best of ourselves

When we are debating an issue, loyalty means

giving me your honest opinion,

whether you think I'll like it or not.

Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.

But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

From that point on,

loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.

Experience is not what happens to a man. 

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers;

it comes from being open to all the questions.
- Earl Gray Stevens

I don't know who my grandfather was;

I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

- Abraham Lincoln

From what we get, we can make a living;

what we give, however, makes a life. 

- Arthur Ashe, Days of Grace

Peace on earth will come to stay,  when we live Christmas every day.

- Helen Steiner Rice

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love;

Some men see things the way they are and ask, "Why?"  I dream things that never were, and ask "Why not?"

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

It is time for us to stand and cheer for the doer,

the achiever, the one who recognizes the challenge

Great minds discuss ideas;

average minds discuss events;

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; 

courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

The ultimate measure of a man

is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

- John Ruskin