Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the

attainment of ultimate

objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.

--Edwin C. Bliss

Never leave till tomorrow which you can do today.

--Benjamin Franklin

Universities are turning out highly skilled barbarians because

we don't provide a

framework of values to young people, who more and more are

searching for it.

--Steven Muller, President, Johns Hopkins University

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade;

character, not technicalities.

--Winston Churchill

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to

learn to do things the right

way.

--Benjamin Franklin

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

--Derek Bok

One reason that I don't drink is that I want to know when I am

having a good time.

--Lady Astor

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and

suddenly you are doing the

impossible.
--St. Francis of Assisi

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal.

Earl Nightingale

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

--Abigail Van Buren

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next
opponent was doing. When

I could see him still working, I'd start pushing myself. When I
see him in the shower, I'd

push myself harder.

--Dan Gable, Olympic gold medalist in wrestling

A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a

delight.

--George Gritter

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot enrich the poor by impoverishing the rich.

You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.

You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage pay
or .

You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's

initiative and

independence. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by

inciting class hatred.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you

earn.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they
could and should do for

themselves.

--Abraham Lincoln

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it is the first 12 hours or

the second 12 hours.

--Kammons Wilson, CEO of Holiday Inn

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it

wouldn't seem wonderful at

all.

--Michaelangelo

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by
those who hustle.

--Abraham Lincoln

The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the
value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde

If you work for a man for heaven's sake work for him.

--Kim Hubbard

Nothing will take the place of persistence. Talent will not :

Nothing is more common than

unsuccessful people with talent . Genius will not : Unrewarded

genius is a proverb.

Education will not: The world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination

alone are omnipotent.

--Calvin Coolidge
If a man is called to be street sweeper, he should sweep
streets

even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music,

or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well

that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here

lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

--Martin Luger King, Jr.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never

use.

--Charles Schultz

A man is a hero not because he is braver than anyone else, but

because he is brave for

ten minutes longer.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for

miracles but produces them. If

you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.

--Henry Ford

Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare
to win.

--Vince Lombardi

LUCK

He worked by day

And toiled by night.

He gave up play
And some delight.

Dry books he read,

New things to learn.

And forged ahead,

Success to earn.

He plodded on with

Faith and pluck;

And when he won,

Men called it luck.

--Anonymous

If discipline is practiced in every home, juvenile delinquency

would be reduced by 95%.

--J. Edgar Hoover

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired

but controlling the desire.

--Epictetus

Parents spend an average of 15 minutes a week in "meaningful

dialog" with their

children--children who are left to glean whatever values they

can from peers and TV.

--Journal of the American Family Association

Education teaches us what we can do and also teaches us what

we cannot do.

I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not
knowing what cannot be done.

--Henry Ford
Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The
protection of our rights can

endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities.

-John F. Kennedy

Associate yourself with people of good quality if you esteem

your reputation for it is better

to be alone than to be in bad company.

George Washington

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

--Eleanor Roosevelt

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than for any
other ability under the sun.

--John Rockefeller

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no

man can sincerely try to help

another without helping himself.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Egotism is the anaesthetic that deadens the pain of stupidity.

--Knute Rockne

"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder

them."

--Elbert Hubbard

The price of greatness is responsibility.

--Winston Churchill

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

--David Augsburger

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but

rather the feeling of being

unwanted.

--Mother Teresa

It's an old maxim in the schools

that flattery's the food of fools

Yet now and then you men of wit

will condescend to take a bit.

--Jonathan SwiftI learned a long time ago never to wrestle with

a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig

likes it.

--Cyrus ChingMake yourself an honest man and then you may

be sure there is one rascal less in the

world.

--Thomas CarlyleRudeness is the weak man's imitation of

strength.

--Eric HofferWhen someone blushes with embarrassment, when

someone carries away an ache,

when something sacred is made to appear common, when

someone's weakness

provides the laughter, when profanity is required to make it

funny, when a child is brought

to tears or when everyone can't join in the laughter, it's a poor

joke.
--Cliff Thomas

Rejoice, and men will seek you;

Grieve, and they turn and go;

They want full measure of all your pleasure,

But they do not need your woe.

Be glad, and your friends are many;

Be sad, and you lose them all

There are none to decline your nectar Ed wine,

But alone you must drink life's gall.

--Ella Wheeler WilcoxResolve to be tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the

striving and tolerant of the weak and wrong. Because some

time in our lives we would

have been all of these ourselves.

--Lloyd Shearer, 1986THE GIGO PRINCIPLE

The computer phrase GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) is very

sound.

Negativity in; negativity our.

Positivity in; positivity out.

Good in; good out.On the journey to life's highway, keep your
eyes upon the

goal. Focus on the donut, not upon the hole.

--AnonymousLife is hard by the yard,

but by the inch,

it's a cinch.
--Gean GordonObstacles are those frightful things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal.

--Henry Ford

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood. . .

Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.

--Daniel H. Burn hamNo person was ever honored for what he

received. Honor has been the reward for what

he gave.

--Calvin CoolidgeThe best and most beautiful things in the

world cannot be

seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

--Helen KellerStudy as if you were to live forever. Live as if you

were to die tomorrow.

--Mahatma GandhiWe cannot help ourselves without helping

others.

We cannot enrich our lives without enriching others.

We cannot prosper without bringing prosperity to others.

--Nanette Cole, Spellman CollegeI would rather fail in a cause

that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that

would ultimately fail.

--Wood row WilsonThere are some defeats more triumphant

than victories.

--Michael de MontaigneTry not to be a man of success but

rather try to be a man of value.

--Albert Einstein

Where the vision is one year, cultivate flowers.

Where the vision is ten years, cultivate trees.

Where the vision is eternity, cultivate people.

Oriental saying

Remember, winners don't do different things, they do things

differently!

-Shiv Khera