You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. -Woodrow Wilson

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. -Marcus Antoninus

People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if u want them to hand some over to u, u have to be nice to people! -Wilde

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. -Thoreau

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." -unknown

U have 2 put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates b4 U achieve anything worthwhile. -Brian Tracy

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. -Wayne Dyer

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Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home, and enables me to enjoy it better. -Thoreau

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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds, & words return to us sooner or later, w/ astounding accuracy. -unknown

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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. -Billy Sunday

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People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be--not what you nag them to be. -Scudder Parker

Invincible Determination

The longer I live, the more deeply I'm convinced that what makes the difference between one man and another, the great and the insignificant, is energy, that invincible determination, a purpose that once formed nothing can take away. The energetic quality will do anything that is meant by God to be done in this world, and no talent, training, opportunity, or circumstance will make any man without it.

-Sir Thomas Buxton

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. -David Starr Jordan

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. -William James #quotes #inspire

I never did a day's work in my life--it was all fun. -Thomas Edison

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. -Stephen Leacock

Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises. -Demosthenes #quotes

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. -Robert Schuller

Be Careful What You Think

Our achievements of today are but the sum total of our thoughts of yesterday. You are today where the thoughts of yesterday have brought you and you will be tomorrow where the thoughts of today take you.

-Blaise Pascal

To improve is to change. To be perfect is to have changed a lot. -Winston Churchill

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -Mark Twain