There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
-- Hindu proverb

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
- Sonya Friedma

Method is much,
technique is much,
but inspiration is even more.
- Ben Nathan Cardozo, 1870-1938 -

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
- Warren Buffett

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it... You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
- Napoleon Hill

Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.
— Mark Twain

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances that they want, and if they can't find them, make them .
- George Bernard Shaw

I trust my instincts.
- Amy Hirsch p> All great achievements require time.
— Maya Angelou: is an American Poet

Train for a week, and you can run a mile. Train for a few weeks, you can run a 5K race. Train for a few months, and you can run a marathon. Most of us — in our careers and our achievements — aren’t marathoners. We focus on one thing until it becomes good, yet abandon it before it gets to great. The truth is, there is no clear line that separates good from great. And you may be much closer to great than you think.
Richard Koch presents the secret principle behind becoming a marathoner in life.

Cut from his high school basketball team, he went home and cried.
– Michael Jordan

Told by a teacher he was "Too stupid to learn anything.”
– Thomas Edison

Fired from a newspaper because he "lacked imagination."
– Walt Disney

Everyone gets knocked down. The ones who find a way to get back up — well, they become somebody.
Terri Lonier ignites your entrepreneurial spark.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
– Thomas H. Huxley

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles... but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-Buddha

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

On Avoiding Pettiness Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli

On what luck really is ~ I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Lucille Ball, actress

On talent and character ~ A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet

The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
--Joseph Henry, physicist

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest.
- William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 -

A wise man will make more opportunity than he finds.
- Francis Bacon, 1561-1624

Love the trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
- Marcus Aurelius, 121-180

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
- Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Ben Franklin, 1706-1790

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 which has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller 1880-1968 -

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through pleasure or self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-Helen Keller

On Achieving ~ Set your goals high, and do not stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson, athlete

On Resolve ~ The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager

On Responding to Criticism ~
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
- David Brinklwy, broadcaster

When your amnesia over your identity begins to be cured, you will finally realize that... grasping at self is the root cause of all your suffering. You will understand at last... that both the noblest and the wisest thing to do is to cherish others instead of cherishing yourself. This will bring healing to your heart, healing to your mind, and healing to your spirit.
-Soyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
-John Ruskin

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers. After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?"

In the 1940s, a young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. After 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, New York, Haloid Company, to purchase the rights to his electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation. The window of opportunity does not open itself.
-Dave Weinbaum

Those people close to us and those just passing through our lives have a reason to be there. Giving attention to another's humanity is our calling.
-Karen Casey

Whatever action is performed by a great man, common men follow in his footsteps, and whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues.
– Bhagavad Gita

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discus events, small minds discuss people.
– Hugh C. Cameron

Great men never feel great; small men never feel small.
– Chinese Proverb

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
– Kahill Gibran

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