"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." Elbert Hubbard {1856-1915 American Publisher}

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul." George Bancroft {1800-1891 American Historian}

"Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process." Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop

"There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying." Francis Bacon {1561-1626 English Philosopher}

"There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence" Vince Lombardi {1913-1970 American Football Coach}

"Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it." George Shinn {Author of "The Miracle of Motivation"}

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." Sydney J. Harris {1917-1986 American Journalist & Author} Sydney J. Harris {1917-1986 American Journalist & Author}

"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." Helen Keller {1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author & Motivator}

"Kindness is the language the deaf hear and the blind see" Mark Twain

"In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared." Katherine Dunham {American Dancer}

"The source of all energy, passion, motivation and an internally generated  desire to do good work is our own feelings about what we are doing." Peter Black

"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place." Orison Swett Marden {1850-1924 Founder of Success Magazine}

"Let him that would move the world, first move himself." Socrates {469-399BC Greek Philosopher}

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." Mark Twain {1835-1910 American Author}

"Happiness is a place between too little and too much." Author Unknown

"Power is not something that we can bestow on another person. It is something he or she already has within and will struggle to retain. Empowerment means that we acknowledge the personal power each person has to make positive decisions and to take responsibility for them, a simple exercise in treating others with dignity and respect." Gail Pursell Elliott "The Dignity and Respect Lady"

"Tomorrow is our permanent address." E.E. Cummings {18941962 American Poet}

"Pain can be an incubator for compassion if we keep our intention towards healing, learning and serving." Sue Patton Thoele

"The surest way to gain respect is to earn it by conduct." Author Unknown

The trouble with political jokes is that very often they get elected. Will Rogers

"The world rewards those who take responsibility for their own success"  Curt Gerrish

"Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong." Sydney J. Harris {1917-1986 American Journalist & Author}

"Often the greatest growth takes place under the hardest of circumstances.  Look deeply to learn the lessons of the coldest, most painful times,  for within them lies your greatest potential for transformation." Anon

"The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can." Paul Kurtz {Philosophy Professor & Author}

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {1749-1832 German Philosopher}

"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none." Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin

"Did is a word of achievement, Won't is a word of retreat, Might is a word of bereavement, Can't is a word of defeat, Ought is a word of duty, Try is a word of each hour, Will is a word of beauty, Can is a word of power." Unknown Author

"A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him." James A. Pike {1913-1969 American Episcopal Bishop

"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." Orison Swett Marden {1850-1924 Founder of Success Magazine} Orison Swett Marden {1850-1924 Founder of Success Magazine}

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." Henry Ford {1863-1947 American Entrepreneur} Henry Ford {1863-1947 American Entrepreneur}