We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolub le problems.

-Lee Iacocca A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -Duke Ellington He who has begun is half done. -Horace Two thirds of human existence are wasted in hesitation, and the last third in re pentance. -Emile Souvestre Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. -Elbert Hubbard Making progress is like miners' work: it doesn't advance as quickly as one shoul d like, and also as others expect; but faced with such a task, patience and fait hfulness are essential. --Vincent Van Gogh Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant or the future predominate over the present advances us in the dignity o f thinking beings. -Samuel Johnson No discomfort--no toughening. -James E. Loehr, Ed.D. In Aristotle's time there was no telescope, microscope, watch, thermometer, baro meter--only a ruler and a compass. Change must be measured from a known base lin e. -Evan Shute As long as you are in this earth suit there is room for improvement. -Steve Rob inson But the only way to stay ahead is to move ahead. -Richard Nixon The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would h ave sacrificed his life. -Ernest Renan Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who can not remember the past are content to repeat it. -George Santayana Very early, I perceived that the object of life is to grow. -Margaret Fuller Don't run with the pack until or unless you can lead it. Be your own pitchman. S ell yourself. Attention does not come quickly to the humble. Plan or plot your p romotions. Show your boss how you can do more work so that he or she can have mo re fun. Set your sights on your own visions and keep reaching--even for the moon . -Al Neuharth Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow the small ones . -Ralph Waldo Emerson 'For example' is not proof. -Jewish proverb If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat someo ne as he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be. -Carlos E. Asay A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it. -John Keats Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift. -Homer A short saying oft contains much wisdom. -Sophocles Proverbs are useful to get right to the point and shut the mouth of ignorance qu ickly. Proverbs are the daughters of experience. -Sierra Leone Proverb For every quarterback on the field, there are a thousand in the stands. -Unknow n Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. -He rbert Spencer Know your subject better than your hearers know it, and you have nothing to fear . -Dale Carnegie & J. Berg Esenwin. As I abandoned my fears of making a mistake and focused instead on my listeners, my anxiety disappeared and I discovered I could communicate with great freedom. -Herbert Benson When you buy, use your eyes and your mind, not your ears. -Czechoslovakian prov erb Great causes are not won in a single generation. -Vaughn J. Featherstone We are in something that is bigger than our wildest imagination. We have a part in it. -Michael Hilliard Humanity is a common cause. -Noah Webster We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when al l that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Charles Kingsley Everything you say and do counts. -Unknown

One must give one's self all the occupation one can to make life supportable in this world. The futher I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It beco mes, in the long run, the greatest of pleasures and takes the place of the illus ions of life. If you do not want to commit suicide, always have something to do. -Voltaire Answer the why of your campaign and everything else is secondary. Example: "It's time for a change" -James Carville Nothing now remains but for the actors of this mighty scene to preserve a perfec t, unvarying constancy of character through the very last act. To close the dram a with applause and to retire from the military theater with the same approbatio n of angels and men which have crowned all their former virtuous actions. -Geor ge Washington As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a h appy death. -Leonardo Da Vinci You can select your own targets. -Napoleon Hill & W. Clement Stone When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. -Eleanor Roosevelt Give the historians something to write about. -Propertius He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how. -Friedrich Nietzsche The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person. -V i Putnam Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality. -A braham Lincoln Everything you do in the here and now effects God. -Jamie Fountain Let me exhort you. Examine yourselves. Let each of you discover where your true chance of greatness lies. -Chariots of Fire Today we may face some boring task or idle conversation that feels like a comple te waste of time. Perhaps next week or next year we'll understand that nothing i s wasted, that in the economy of our universe even a weed is simply a flower who se use has yet to be discovered. -Mort Crim I refuse to accept the idea that an individual is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. -Ma rtin Luther King What doesn't change is the need for people to survive, to be loved, to win the a pprobation of their peers, and to reach some personal/spiritual conclusion. -So nia Levitin The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. -Wi lliam James Some of necessity go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path. -Thomas Mann Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. -Kenneth Hildebrand The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. -David S tarr Jordan