Richard M. DeVos- The only thing that stands between man & what he wants is often the will to try it & faith to believe it’s possible.

You can give in to the failure messages & be bitter. Or you can choose to be happy. positive & excited about life- A. L. Williams

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much – Mother Teresa

Paul "Bear" Bryant- It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble." Arabic Proverb

Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat – Scottish Proverb

Paul J. Meyer- Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon-must inevitably come to pass!

Picasso was pulled out of school at 10 because he was doing so poorly and a tutor hired by his father gave up on him– a lesson to learn?

Nothing endures but change. – Heraclitus

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – Gen. George Patton

The power to question is the basis of all human progress." – Indira Gandhi

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. Abraham Lincoln

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E. E. Cummings

I have read that Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school. Don't let the past determine the future.

There is no luck except where there is discipline– Irish Proverb – let’s discipline ourselves to be the person we are meant to be.

You've got to do your own growing, not matter how tall your grandfather was– Irish Proverb –It is up to each of us.

Change your thoughts and you change your world – Norman Vincent Peale

Success demands singleness of purpose - Vincent Lombardi – Focus, Focus, Focus

Kenneth Hildebrand: Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Destiny is no matter of chance-It is a matter of choice-it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved–William J. Bryan

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

Martin Luther King: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda

The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have - Norman Vincent Peale - Create great energy!

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa

Unknown: People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

William James: He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Peter Sinclair: Great lives are the culmination of great thoughts followed by great actions.

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest - Swedish proverb - It's time to ACT!

The work praises the man– Irish Proverb –Let our deeds speak for us.

Even a small thorn causes festering– Irish Proverb –Don’t dwell, instead solve.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz

I've read that Clarence Darrow became a legend in the courtroom as he lost case after case. Hmmmm how does that happen?

Fred Waring was once rejected for high school chorus. – And another lesson. Seems history is full of them.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it – John Ruskin

Put silk on a goat, and it’s still a goat – Irish Proverb – Let’s not put masks on our challenges – Instead, let’s solve them!

Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. -Mark Twain

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour – Japanese Proverb

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities – Pogo

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds – Aesop

Henry Ford barely made it through high school. – Hmmm, another lesson to learn?

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - I do believe this! Do you?

We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within. – Earl Nightingale.

It is not who you think you are that is holding you back – it is who you think you are not. – Anonymous

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt – William Shakespeare

A hound's food is in its legs– Irish Proverb – Let's take massive action toward our goals.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved-the pig was committed -unknown

I have read that Wernher von Braun flunked ninth-grade algebra. You determine your future, not the past.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. –William James

The wearer best knows where the shoe pinches– Irish Proverb –Let's show each other some grace, we all have challenges and annoyances.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions-Life is an experiment-The more experiments you make the better - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not let who you were yesterday determine who you will be tomorrow – Unknown

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can’t read or write, but those who can’t learn, unlearn and relearn - Alvin Toffler

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice. It took me a long time to learn this.

I ‘ve read that Puccini’s first music teacher said he had no talent for music. Later he composed some of the world’s best-known operas- Hmmm

What lies before us and what lies behind us are tiny matters to what lies within us.

Strong reasons make strong actions. -William Shakespeare

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature. – Carl Sagan

Fall seven times, stand up eight – Japanese Proverb

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. – Dean Acheson

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

This vision you glorify in your mind, the ideal you hold in your heart, this you will build your life by, this you will become – James Allen

Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation – Thomas Henry Huxley

Fix the problem, not the blame. – Japanese Proverb

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown – Chinese Proverb

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow – Norman Vincent Peale

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself – Benjamin Franklin

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters. – Aesop

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon but only to hold a man's foot long enough for him to put the other one higher – T.H.Huxley

When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion. – African Proverb

"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." - Epictetus

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. - George Schultz

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons – Denis Waitley

S. Madwed- Our subconscious has no sense of humor, plays no jokes & can’t tell the difference between reality & an imagined thought/image.

What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.

Brian Tracy- The more you seek security, the less you have. The more you seek opportunity, the more you will achieve the security you seek.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do - L. da Vinci

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it- Goethe – Give your talent and your value

yamai wa ki kara - "sickness is a thing of the spirit" - Japanese Proverb

Richard M. DeVos- The only thing that stands between man & what he wants is often the will to try it & faith to believe it’s possible.

You can give in to the failure messages & be bitter. Or you can choose to be happy. positive & excited about life- A. L. Williams

William Barclay- We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ~Anais Nin

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much – Mother Teresa

Paul "Bear" Bryant- It's not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." – Archimedes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." – Chinese Proverb

Paul J. Meyer- Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon-must inevitably come to pass!

A kind word can warm three months of winter. – Japanese Proverb

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"." George Bernard Shaw

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

H. Jackson Brown, Jr- Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

There is no luck except where there is discipline– Irish Proverb – let’s discipline ourselves to be the person we are meant to be.

Success demands singleness of purpose - Vincent Lombardi – Focus, Focus, Focus

Kenneth Hildebrand: Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. – John Locke

The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have - Norman Vincent Peale - Create great energy!

Unknown: People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do.

William James: He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

Peter Sinclair: Great lives are the culmination of great thoughts followed by great actions.

We are all, right now, living the life we choose.-Peter McWilliams, Author

God gives every bird a worm, but he does not throw it into the nest - Swedish proverb - It's time to ACT!

The work praises the man– Irish Proverb –Let our deeds speak for us.

Even a small thorn causes festering– Irish Proverb –Don’t dwell, instead solve.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - Charles M. Schulz

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you." Maori Proverb

Fred Waring was once rejected for high school chorus. – And another lesson. Seems history is full of them.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. – Earl Nightingale

Put silk on a goat, and it’s still a goat – Irish Proverb – Let’s not put masks on our challenges – Instead, let’s solve them!