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June 30, 2007
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
June 29, 2007
“Jesus had a forgiving and understanding heart. If he lives within us, mercy will temper our relationships with our fellow men”
-Billy Graham
June 28, 2007
“A lot of people have gone further than they thought because someone else thought they could”
-Zig Ziglar
June 27, 2007
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
June 26, 2007
"Father! -- to God himself we cannot give a holier name!"
- William Wordsworth
June 25, 2007
"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"
- Dolorores Huerto
June 24, 2007
"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
- Victor Hugo
June 23, 2007
“You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.”
-Robert F. Kennedy
June 22, 2007
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
-Helen Keller
June 21, 2007
“Let thy words be few”.
-Ecclesiastes 5:2
June 20, 2007
“Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.”
-Thomas Carlyle
June 19, 2007
"Golden Rule principles are just as necessary for operating a business profitably as are trucks, typewriters or twine."
- James Cash Penney
June 18, 2007
"Home Depot knows 'the more they help, the more they sell' -- oh by the way, for the 'bottom liners' who disagree -- it's also vice-versa."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
June 17, 2007
"The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities--a sense of humor and a sense of proportion."
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
June 16, 2007
"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
June 15, 2007
"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi."
- Oprah Winfrey
June 14, 2007
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in making new landscapes but in having new eyes."
- Marcel Proust
June 13, 2007
"By chance, you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared."
- Louis Pasteur
June 12, 2007
"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
- Benjamin Disraeli
June 11, 2007
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
-Billy Graham
June 10, 2007
“To govern was to serve, not to rule.”
Seneca
June 9, 2007
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.”
-Winston Churchill
June 8, 2007
“So, I learn from my mistakes. It's a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there's no gain. I found that to be true in my life. You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach.”
-Johnny Cash
June 7, 2007
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
-Abraham Lincoln
June 6, 2007
"Blessed are the Merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.”
-Jesus Christ
June 5, 2007
"A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
June 4, 2007
"The most important thing I learned from big companies is that creativity gets stifled when everyone's got to follow the rules."
- David Kelley
June 3, 2007
"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."
- Socrates
June 2, 2007
"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
- Norman Vincent Peale
June 1, 2007
"Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of."
- Mark Victor Hansen
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