"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. -Chuck D, from song by Public Enemy "He Got Game"
“Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you.” - Winston Churchill
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in time of challenge and controversy” – Martin Luther King Jr
"The people who get on in this world are the ones who get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can’t find them, make them." – George Bernard Shaw, Playwright
“Faith is a passionate intuition.” - William Wordsworth
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” - Socrates
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” - Kahlil Gibran
”There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet." - William F. Halsey
“If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” – Dick Vermeil, American Football Coach
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
"You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." – Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." – Charles Kettering, Inventor
“Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.” – George S. Patton
"Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - George Sala
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: "You haven't!"” -Thomas Edison
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” - Shirley MacLaine
“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.” - Louis L'Amour
“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.” - Samuel Butler
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” - Clare Boothe Luce
“Lying is the most simple form of self-defense.” - Susan Sontag
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open.” - Jawaharial Nehru
“The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.” - Vera Brittain
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” - Andre Gide
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, we guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mile, American dancer-choreographer (1905-1993)
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshal
"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." - Merle Miller
“You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.” - Jim Rohn
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." – Napoleon Hill, Author
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” - Ambrose Bierce
"What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know." - Jim Rohn
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." – Thomas H. Huxley, scientist, educator
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
"When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully."-Anon
You can’t experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild! -Scott Sorrell
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. -Denis Waitley