Quote of the day
May 21--Rober H. Schuller--"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" May 18--Dale E. Turner--"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born." May17--Emmanuel Swedenborg--"True charity is the desire to be useful to others without the thought of recompense." May 16--G.K. Chesterton--"The only way to catch a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before." May 15--F. Scott Fitzgerald--"You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say." May 14--Mohandis Gandhi--"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world...as in being able to remake ourselves." May 11--Robert Leighton--"Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with." May 10--John C. Maxwell--"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desire to reach their potential." May 9--Henry van ****--"Use what talent you possess; the woods would be very silent if no bird sang except those that sang best." May 8--Vince Lombardi--"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is." May 7--Elbert Hubbard--"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." May 4--Charles Cable Colton--"All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting but by rising above them." May 3--Aristotle--"Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know." May 2--Edward de Bono--"Unhappiness is defined as the difference between our talent and our expectations." May 1--Brian Tracy--"People with clear, written goals accomplish more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine." Apr 30--B.C. Forbes--"If you don't drive your business you will be out of business." Apr 27--Russell H. Conwell--"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them." Apr 26--Herbert Spencer--"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy." Apr 25--William Shakespeare--"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Apr 24--Michael Johnson--"As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion." Apr 23--Paul Varley--"The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up." Apr 20--Lao Tzu--"A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet." Apr 19--Geoffrey Gaborino--"The real contest is between what you've done and what you are capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else." Apr 18--Henry Fielding--"Adversity is a trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is an honest man." Apr 17--Sydney J. Harris--When I hear somebody sigh that, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" Apr 16--C.S. Lewis--"We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad." Apr 13--Richard Whately--Everone wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone who sincerely wishses to be on the side of truth. Apr 12--Bernie Siegel--"If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn." Apr 10--Lynn V. Anderson--"If everything were perfect in this life, we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us." Mar 30--Nelson Rockefeller--"Never forget the most powerful force on earth is love." Mar 29--Harry S. Truman--"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." Mar 28--Dag Hammarskoljd--"Never measure the height of a mountain until you reach the top. Then you will see how low it was" Mar 27--Hillel--"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I?"Mar 26--Samuel Johnson--“A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.” Mar 23--Oscar Wilde--"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation." Mar 22--Tom Peters--“The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.” Mar 21--Pearl S. Buck--The secret of joy in work is contained in one word--excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it." Mar 20--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe--"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." Mar 19--Abraham Lincoln--"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure." Mar 16--Benjamin Franklin--"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." Mar 15--James Russell Lowell--"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere with himself." Mar 14--Thomas Paine--"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." Mar 13--George Bernard Shaw--"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." Mar 12--Horace--"Rule your mind or it will rule you." Mar 9--Aristotle--"It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is only possible one way." Mar 8--Myrtle Reed--"If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth, even place to walk on." Mar 7--Sam Ewing--"It's not the hours you put in your work that count, it's the work you put in your hours." Mar 6--Jane Porter--"To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions." Mar 5--William Butler Yeats--"Time can but make it easier to be wise Though now it seems impossible, and so All you need is patience." Mar 2--Today is Read Across America, in honor of Dr. Seuss!--Joseph Addison--"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors." Mar 1--James Baldwin--"No one can possibly know what is about to happen; it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time." Feb 28--John Ruskin--"Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes." Feb 27--Norman Vincent Peale--"Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit." Feb 24--Golda Meir--"Don't be humble. You're not that great." Feb 23--George Patton--"Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory." Feb 22-Maya Angelou-"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it." Feb 21--Isaac Asimov--"Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions." Feb 16--William Shakespeare--"And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything." Feb 15--Paul Bourget--"One must live the way one thinks, or end up thinking the way one has lived." Feb 14--Today is Arizona's 100th birthday! Alfred Hitchcock--"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it." Feb 13--Faith Forsyte--"Adversities do not make men either weak or strong, but they reveal what he is." Feb 10--Mohandis K. Gandhi--"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Feb 9--Albert Szent-Gyorgi--"Discovery consists of seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." Feb 8--Aeschylus--"It is good even for old men to learn wisdom." Feb 7--Thomas Edison--"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." Feb 6--Eric Hoffer--"Our greatest weariness comes from work not done." Feb 3--Andy Warhol--"They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." Feb 2--Mae West--"When choosing between two evils, I always like to pick the one I never tried before." Feb 1--Henry Ward Beecher--"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation."Jan 31--Virgil--"They can because they think they can." Jan 30--Sun Tzu--"The successful person has unusual skill at dealing wiht conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all." Jan 27--Billy Wilder--"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's." Jan 26--Hubert Humphrey--"This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves: not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us." Jan 25--Benjamin Disraeli--"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." Jan 24--Amelia Earhart--"Adventure is worthwhile in itself. Jan 23--Jack London--"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
Jan 20--Ralph Waldo Emerson--"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."Jan 19--Paul J. Meyer--"Ninety percent of those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit."Jan 18--Andrew Carnegie--"No man can become rich without enriching others." Jan 17--Martin Luther King Jr.--"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." Jan 13--Mark Twain--"Make the best o'things the way you find 'em says I--that's my motto." Jan 12--John Andrew Holmes--"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting up." Jan 11--Mark Twain--"I have found that there ain't no surer way to find out whethe you like people or hate them than to travel with them." Jan 10--Franklin D. Roosevelt-- "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." Jan 9--James Russell Lowell --"Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character."