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“Life is better because you know more, not just because you have more.”

ANONYMOUS
LEARNING

“You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”

JOHN PEERS
AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN
CONFIDENCE

“The things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable. ”

ALEXIS CARREL
FRENCH SURGEON; NOBEL LAUREATE
RIGHT CHOICES

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ”

ANTOINE DE SAINTE-EXUPERY
(1900-1944); AVIATOR, WRITER
LEADERSHIP

“Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.”

UTA HAGEN
ACTRESS
DETERMINATION

“I am because you are.”

AFRICAN PROVERB
DEVOTION

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

ROBERT BYRNE
AMERICAN CHESS PLAYER
PURPOSE

“What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what gets you out of bed in the mornings, what you do with your evenings, how you spend your weekends, what you read, who you know, what breaks your heart, and what amazes you. Fall in love, stay in love, and it will decide everything.”

PEDRO ARRUPE
LOVE

“I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which came to me as a seed goes to the next as a blossom and that which came to me as a blossom, goes on as fruit.”

DAWNA MARKOVA, PH.D
WRITER, SPEAKER
LIVE LIFE

“Fill each day with life and heart. There is no pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good person takes in doing good.”

JOHN TILLOSTON
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
KINDNESS

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

ROBERT FROST
POET
PERSEVERANCE

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

JOSH BILLINGS
[HENRY WHEELER SHAW] HUMORIST, ESSAYIST
EXCELLENCE

“What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

UNKNOWN
LIVE YOUR DREAMS

“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. ”

WENDELL BERRY
FARMER, WRITER, ACADEMIC
INSPIRATION

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, day and night, to make you everybody but yourself—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting.”

E. E. CUMMINGS
POET, PLAYWRIGHT, PAINTER, ESSAYIST
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

“We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. ”

CLAUDE BERNARD
FRENCH PHYSIOLOGIST
LEARNING

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. ”

ALBERT EINSTEIN
THEORETICAL PHYSICIST, PHILOSOPHER, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
VISION

“Let’s give the historians something to write about”

PROPERTIUS
LATIN POET
EXCELLENCE

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will never be shortened. Happiness never ceases by being shared.”

CHINESE PROVERB
UNITY

“If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That’s how it works. ”

DAN ZADRA
BUSINESSMAN, INSPIRATIONAL WRITER
TEACHING BY EXAMPLE

“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved. ”

WILL ROGERS
ACTOR, COMIC, COLUMNIST
RISING ABOVE

“Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. ”

AL BERNSTEIN
AMERICAN SPORTSCASTER
ACHIEVEMENT

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

NORMAN MACEWAN
SENIOR COMMANDER, ROYAL AIR FORCE
SHARING

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

SENECA
ROMAN STATESMAN, PHILOSOPHER
PREPARATION

“Great ideas...come into the world as gently as doves...if we listen attentively, we shall hear, amid the uproar...a faint flutter of wings, the gentle stirring of life and hope. ”

ALBERT CAMUS
AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER
LISTENING

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ”

CARL GUSTAV JUNG
FOUNDER OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
LOVE

“Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment...this day...is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day...each moment of this day...a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity.”

DAN CUSTER
OPTIMISM

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
WRITER
PEACE

“In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved. No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains.”

THESE SMALL CANDLES
TOMBSTONE INSCRIPTION IN BRITAIN
GRATITUDE

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose ... not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”

ANNE SULLIVAN MACY
TEACHER
LEARNING

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
PLAYWRIGHT, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
LIVE LIFE

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

C.S. LEWIS
WRITER, THEOLOGIAN, SCHOLAR
COURAGE

“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”

CHARLES LINDBERGH
AVIATOR
INSPIRATION
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