Progress in every age results only
from the fact that there are some menand women who refuse to believe that
what they know to be right cannotbe done.
- Russell W. Davenport
Find a purpose in life so big it
will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
- David O. McKay
Men can be stimulated to show off
their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good ualities.
- John Richelsen
See first that the design is wise
and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.
- William Shakespeare
Seek respect mainly from thyself,
for it comes first from within.
- Steven H. Coogler
Exercise caution in your business
affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind
you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere
life is full of heroism.
- From Desiderata, found in Old
Saint Paul’s Church, Baltimore,Maryland. Dated 1692.
Let everyone sweep in front of his
own door and the whole world will be clean.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We come into this world crying while
all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this
world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
- Persian proverb
Never mind what others do; do better
than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The important thing is this: to be
able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos
I can give you a six-word formula
for success: Think things through - then follow through.
- Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker
Nurture your mind with great thoughts;
to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
This above all, to thine own self
be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then
be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare
Victory is sweetest when you've known
defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes
Being forced to work, and forced
to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence
and strength of will,cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which
the idle never know.
- Charles Kingsley
The life that conquers is the life
that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a
predetermined goal. Those who succeed
are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of
plan in life, and the tragic brevity
of time.
- W.J. Davison
To be pure and strong, to be honest
and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, to be
manly and womanly. He can do more for others who has done most with himself.
- S.D. Gordon