Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
 
Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
- Albert EinsteinAnyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don’t want to do it. 
- Dr. Phil

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
- Dr. Denis Waitley

You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
- Tim Blixseth

Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
- Stephen R. Covey

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
- Voltaire

Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac B. Singer

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
- Charles F. Kettering, Engineer and Inventor

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
- Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

Vision doesn’t usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.
- Dr. Michael Norwood

Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Samuel Beckett

Cause Change & Lead
Accept Change & Survive
Resist Change & Die

- Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
- Matthew Keith Groves

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
- Sydney Harris

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.”
- Richard L. Evans

 

Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent, conquer him with love.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will.
Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa. It ennobles both the victor and the vanquished.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi

The Best Portion Of A Good Man’s Life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

If you want to be loved, love and be loveable.
Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind…
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
Doubt thou the stars are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar;
but never doubt I love you.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die.
Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path –Agatha Christie (1890 – 1976)
If you judge people, you have no time to love them
Author: Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God-the rest will be given.
Author: Mother Teresa

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never… never forget it.

Curtis Judalet