"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself."
--Charles W. Eliot
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head."
--Sally Kempton
"We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.
--Maxwell Maltz
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
--Erica Jong
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong."
-- Charlotte Bronte
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
--Gertrude Stein
"If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else."
--Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
--Stewart B. Johnson
"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either."
--Leo Burnett
"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."
--Ethel Watts Mumford
"To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary."
--Winston Churchill
"Never answer a critic, unless he's right."
--Bernard Baruch
"Today is the blocks with which we build."
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist."
--Gail Sheehy
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act."
--Abraham Maslow
"Don't waste today regretting yesterday instead of making a memory for tomorrow."
--Laura Palmer
"Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down."
--Olive Schreiner
"Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it."
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy."
--Henry Link
"Inches make a champion."
--Vince Lombardi
"We will either find a way, or make one."
--Hannibal
"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."
--Napoleon
"Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
--Napoleon Bonaparte
"You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality."
--Woodrow Wilson
"You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it."
--German proverb
"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them."
--Warren Bennis
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
--Mark Twain
"Lord grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
--Michelangelo
"On the human chessboard, all moves are possible."
--Miriam Schiff
