Ethel Merman
"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 Arnold Bennett
"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
Edmund Burke
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
Richard Nixon
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank
"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
Henry C. Link
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do no pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked."
Lord Chesterfield
"I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me."
Althea Gibson
"Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
Dwight D.Eisenhower
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
Henry Ford
"He who would leap far must first take a long run."
Danish Proverb
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind.
Anonymous
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
Coco Chanel
"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
Mother Theresa
"I have to live with myself and so I want to be fit for myself to know."
Edgar A. Guest
"We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Theresa
"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment."
Jean de La Bruyere