You are not here merely to make a living.

You are here in order to enable the

world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if
you forget the errand. - Woodrow Wilson

In every triumph there's a lot of try. -Frank Tyger

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when

he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination
regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly
bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out
and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage. -Frederick Pierce

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that
something inside them was superior to circumstances. -Bruce Barton

Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to
serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life.  Open hands open the way
to achievement.  Put them to work today.  -Wilfred A. Peterson

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. -Eleanor Roosevelt

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be
encumbered with your old nonsense. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium
and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome
labor is immense. -Thomas A. Bennett

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable

surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. -Orison Swett Marden

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear,

glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! -Andrew Carnegie

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then
chew it.  -William DeMille
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable
surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. -Orison Swett Marden

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole clear,

glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! -Andrew Carnegie

I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then
chew it.  -William DeMille

It is a great mistake to think of being great without goodness; and I pronounce it

as certain that there was never yet a truly great man that was not as the same
time truly virtuous.  -Benjamin Franklin

Difficulty is a nurse of greatness--a harsh nurse, who rocks her foster children
roughly, but rocks them in strength and athletic proportion. The mind, grappling
with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain
necessity to the stature of greatness. -Bryant

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds,
speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes,
philosophers, and martyrs the greater part will never be known till that hour when
many that were great shall be small, and the small great. -Charles Reade

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God
destines him, but he is never its creator. -D'Aubigne

Great men suffer hours of depression through introspection and self-doubt.  That
is why they are great.  That is why you will find modesty and humility the
characteristics of such men.  -Bruce Barton

Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make

history, but they do not make real life. After all, to do well those things which God
ordained to be the common lot of all mankind, is the truest greatness. To be a
successful father or a successful mother is greater than to be a successful
general or a successful statesman. -Howard W. Hunter

No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that his life
belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind.
-Phillips Brooks
 

A great mind may change its objects, but it cannot relinquish them; it must have
something to pursue; variety is its relaxation, and amusement its repose. -Colton

Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important in some respect,
whether he chooses to be so or not.  -Nathaniel Hawthorne

Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be
done.  -Persian Proverb

Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of

concentration and perseverance. -C.W. Wendte

The road to success is not to be run upon by seven-leagued boots. Step by step,
little by little, bit by bit--that is the way to wealth that is the way to wisdom that is
the way to glory. Pounds are the sons, not of pounds, but of pence. -Charles
Buxton

The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast
well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will
invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right
effort. -S. Smiles

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience
your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
-Addison

Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. -Emily Dickinson

What is known as success assumes nearly as many aliases as there are those
who seek it. Like love, it can come to commoners as well as courtiers. Like virtue,
it is its own reward. Like the Holy Grail, it seldom appears to those who don't
pursue it. -Stephen Birmingham
 

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough. -Helen Keller

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better
mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world
will make a beaten path to his door.
-Generally attributed to Emerson, but also claimed by Elbert Hubbard

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take
breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not
climb upon a plateau. -Josephine Preston Peabody

Gandhi Quotes
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be

happy.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that

the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love
have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they
can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my
comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can
delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
 

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to
know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only
if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might
have to say.
 

My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better
follower of his own faith.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's

weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without
a heart.