It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work.  Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.
-- Thomas Robert Gaines

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles.  Life,misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
-- Victor Hugo

Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
-- General George S. Patton

Power is the ability to do good things for others.
-- Brooke Astor

If a man hasn't discovered something that he would die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr., (1929-1968), speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963.

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
-- Jean de la Fontaine

Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.
- Buddha

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.
-- Ruth McKenney

Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.
-- Mary Lou Cook

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.
-- Lady Bird Johnson

Firmness founded upon principle, upon truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.
- Johann Lavater

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude.  If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you.  But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your waking hours.
-- Beatrice Vincent

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle.
-- Orlando A. Battista

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand.  That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
-- William Faulkner

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
-- Henry Ford

I praise loudly; I blame softly.
-- Catherine the Second

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
-- Joshua L. Liebman

The four cornerstones of character on which this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
-- Capt. Edward V. Rickenbacker

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
-- Linda Ellerbee