In the arena of life the honors & rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. -Aristotle

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream. -Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -G.K. Chesterton

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