"Before you lead you follow before you speak you listen. For he who speaks does not always know and he who knows does not always speak. "

"The friend who declines to sacrifice himself for his friend's faults is still a good friend, it's the friend that puts him in that position who's not a great friend." BW Compton

"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Mahatma Ghandi

"If things don't happen by your wish, make them happen by your will. "

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." Dalai Lama

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time. -- Viktor E. Frankl

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusion is called a philosopher.” ~ Ambrose Bierce

"People will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

"Nature will seek harmony ... with or with-out Humanity! "

"Only those actions which are beyond the scope of the mind have merit" - Bodhidharma

Maybe a few bad people were put in your life,so when the right one came along you'd be thankful. ~ Andrea Kiefer ~

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyse his delusion is called a philosopher.” ~ Ambrose Bierce ~

"The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." Lois McMaster Bujold

"It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul" - William Henley (Invictus)

"We all live alone like a tree in the forest" - Herman Hesse in 'Only Connect'

"Morality is about do the right thing, regardless of what you are told, religion is about doing what you are told, regardless if it is right."

"It don't mean a thing, if it don't go ka-ching! Doo=bop, doo-bop, doo-bop" - Marketing Superstar by Jeffrey Fox

"Sometimes you are the dog, and sometimes you are the tree. It is all relative"

"Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out."
Jack Buck

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." Dalai Lama

"Failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day"

- Jim Rohn (Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle)

"Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level." - Peter Drucker

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." - Sam Walton

"Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone." - Bill Clinton

"Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining custoer represents a huge opportunity for more business." - Zig Ziglar

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, mroe intelligently." - Henry Ford

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"To turn really interesting ideas and fledling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines." - Steve Jobs

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself." - Brian Tracy

"When you confront a problem you begin to solve it." - Rudy Giuliani

"We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge." - John Naisbitt

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." - Elbert Hubbard

"Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going." - Tennessee Williams

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." - John F Kennedy

"To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going." - Joe Namath

"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself." - Alice Walker

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." - Bill Gates

"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

"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm" - Vince Lombardi

"remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream."
- W C Fields

"Never assume the obvious is true." - William Safire

"An idea can turn into dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." - William Bernbach

"The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources and what it takes to match them to the challenge" - Arnold Palmer

"Reading without reflection is like eating without digesting" - Edmund Burke

"There are not hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them." - Clare Boothe

"Most of the impartant things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie

"Genius is a talented person who does his homework." - Thomas Edison

"The last thing one knows is what to put first." - Blaise Pascal

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." - Joan Baez