The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.- Albert Einstein
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. - Plato
Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds. - Unknown
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting yourself in the hands of God, at his disposition, and listening to his voice in the depths of our hearts.~ Mother Theresa
The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature. --Albert Schweitzer
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.--Leo Tolstoy
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.--St Augustine
Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure-Benjamin Disraeli
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.-Warren Buffett
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.- James Yorke
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.- Ross Perot
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.- Bernard Shaw
I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I become stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come.I grew in all my difficulties.- J.C. Penney
One should keep going despite heavy weather; for there is always a calm ahead.- Ron Hubbard
Worry, like a rocking chair will give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere.- Vance Havner
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.- Mark Twain
Have We not expanded thee thy breast?And removed from thee thy burdenThe which did gall thy back?And raised high the esteem (in which) thou (art held)?So, verily, with every difficulty, there is relief:Verily, with every difficulty there is relief.Therefore, when thou art free (from thine immediate task), still labour hard,And to thy Lord turn (all) thy attention.- Koran
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.-Pierre Corneille
If you’re going through Hell, keep going.-Winston Churchill
No pressure, no diamonds.-Mary Case
Damm braces, bless relaxes.-Anonymous
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.-Mahatma Gandhi
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid-Lady Bird Johnson
We are like tea bags - we don’t know our own strength until we’re in hot water.-Author Unknown
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream….It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.-Benjamin Elijah
Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some-Charles Dickens
Of all great works, nine-tenths must be drudgery. Edison put it at 99%. Edmund Burke worked 22 hours at one stretch on one speech … pure drudgery. Kepler filled 600 pages with figures to learn the skies … all drudgery. Genius and talents may start great projects, but only drudgery can finish them-Russell Conwell
There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.-Author Unknown
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.-Abraham Lincoln
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist.-Jack London
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.-Napoleon Bonaparte
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.-Maxwell Maltz
You’re not very smart if you’re not a little kinder and wiser than yesterday-Lincoln
Faith, belief, positive thinking make better people and a better world since the outer world shapes itself to our inner thinking. Quit thinking and talking about war, poverty, hard times.Think and talk peace, health, plenty, success to help bring them about. Guard your thoughts against negatives as you would your house against thieves.-Author Unknown
You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.-Henry David Thoreau
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.-Elbert Hubbard
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. -Emile Zola

There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.
--Federico Fellini

I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.
--Arthur Conan Doyle

All things are possible to him that believes.
--Mark 9:23

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein

You can't win any game unless you are ready to win.
--Connie Mack

The time is always right to do what is right.
--Martin Luther King Jr.

Change is always powerful.
Let your hook be always cast.
In the pond where you least expect it, will be a fish.
--Ovid

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You have to walk it slowly down the stairs.
--Mark Twain

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you least expect it. I have never heard of someoen stumbling on something sitting down.
--Charles F. Kettering

Pessimism is a waste of time.
--Norman Cousins

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
--William James

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first--a process which often reduces the most complex human problem to manageable proportions.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
--Ludwig Van Beethoven

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition there.
--Indira Ghandi

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
--Samuel Johnson

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty--if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
--George Balanchine

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
--John Ruskin

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to the big differences that we often cannot forsee.
--Marian Wright Edelman

The material world, according to contemporary physics, is not a mechanical system made of separate objects, but rather appears as a complex web of relationships.
-Fritjof Capra

As complex as things are today, they will be more complex tomorrow.
--Kevin Kelly

The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
--Willard Gibbs

Less is more.
-Robert Browning

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think about solving the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, then I now it is wrong.
-Buckminster Fuller

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; neither from nor towards, at the still point, there the dance is.
--T.S. Elliot

Management is in a stable state. Transformation is required to move out of the current state, not mere patchwork on the present style of management.
--W. Edwards Deming

Knowledge creates understanding, but only practice creates belief.

For what can the teeming molecules that hustled themselves into self-reproducing metabolisms, the cells coordinating their behaviors to form multicelled organisms, the ecosystems, and even economic and political systems have in common? The wonderful possibility, to be held as a working hypothesis, bold but fragile, is that on many fronts, life evolves toward a regime that is poised between order and chaos. The evocative phrase that points to this working hypothesis is this: life exists at the edge of chaos . . . Networks in the regime near the edge of chaos--this comprise between order and surprise-appear best able to coordinate complex activities and best able to evolve as well.
--Stuart Kauffman

Beyond talent lies all the usual words: discipline, love, luck -- but most of all, endurance.
-- James Baldwin

One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness--simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
--George Sand

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it. They will go for you and be with you.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action that you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
-Norman Vincent Peale

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
-Norman Vincent Peale

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
-Norman Vincent Peale