Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all

Dale Carnegie (1888-1955)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. 

Robert Prost

What is now proven was once only imagined.

William Blake (1757-1827)

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Sun Tzu (500 B.C.)

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind

William James (1842-1910)

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

Henri Federic Amie 

A wise owl sat on an oak,
The more he saw the less he spoke; the less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

Edward H.Richard

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies WITHIN us.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (1841-1935)

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Dale carnegie (1888-1955)

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Anita Roddick 

You see things; and you say "WHY", But I dream things that never were;

And I say 'Why Not?'.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety –nine per cent perspiration 

Thomas A.Edison (1847-1931)

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-87)

One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave till tomorrow which you can do TODAY!

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841-1935)

Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another has it for thirty days – but it is the man that has it for 30 years who makes a success of life.

The task of the LEADER is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Henry Kissinger

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have;

It depends solely on what you THINK.

Dale Carnegie (1888-1965)

Cicero says, not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child

Cicero

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also by warning: its two eyes are geography and chronology. History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Garfield

In order to read the destiny of the people, it is necessary to open the book of its past

Joze Rizal

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay antiquity its due reverence

Erasmus

The danger of the study of history is that it makes us familiar with the evil doing of the past, and leads us to treat them as natural

V.Samuel

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W.Sommerset Maugham (1874-1958)

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

William A. Ward (1893-1959)

Once we realise that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

George Soros

I pray not for wealth, I pray not for honours, I pray not for pleasures, or even for the joys for poetry. I only pray that during all my life I may have love: that I may have love to love - because there are people who don't have the capacity to love.

It is beautiful necessity of our nature to love something.

The most beautiful thing in the world is not what you see or touch, but what you feel in your heart.

There are many people who would never have been in love if they had never heard love spoken of.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face. It's nothing against you to fall down flat. But to lie there – that's a disgrace.

Edmund Vance Cooke (1866-1967)

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to WIN or LOSE

Lyndon B.Johnson (1908-1973)

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that it could be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad, THEY HAVE TO GET BETTER!

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take many small steps

Helmut Schmidt

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power.

Lao-Tzu (604-531 B.C.)

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Alexander Graham (1847-1922)

Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the SEED of an equivalent or a greater benefit.

Napoleon Hill

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they cant find them, MAKE THEM!

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie (1835 – 1919)

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection ….. and he whose heart is firm.

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

The key to survival is to learn to add more value today, and everyday.

Andreww S.Grove

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and your energy into something POSITIVE!

Lee Iacocca

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrived. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Maurice Chivalier (1888-1976)

If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.

Philip Crosby

Prosperity is not without many fears and distates; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success.

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than their dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)

I keep six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew; their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)