"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people."  ~ Lee Iacocca

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately" — Benjamin Franklin

"We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." — Thomas Jefferson

"It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,—Independence now and Independence forever." — Daniel Webster

"One sharp stern struggle and the slaves of centuries are free." — (Thomas) Gerald Massey

"If you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life." — Abraham Lincoln

"We must resolve to govern ourselves; we must seek diversity of interests; . and try to balance work for the body and work for  the mind." — Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

"It is always my choice: to change what I cannot tolerate, or tolerate what I cannot—or will not—change."    Melinda M.  Marshall

"Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery." — Matthew Arnold

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."   Thomas  Hardy

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?" — Sydney J. Harris

"I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances." — Martha Washington

"It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself."   Barbara  Sher

"Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help." — Thomas Fuller

"Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been put up to a critic." — Jean Sibelius

"I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest artist’s work ever produced."  Elizabeth Barrett  Browning

"Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember." — Oscar Levant

"When two people love each other, they don’t look at each other. They look in the same direction." — Ginger Rogers

"Asserting yourself while respecting others is a good way to win respect yourself." — Janice LaRouche

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward

"Here’s a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't." — Richard Bach

"There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue them." — Anonymous

"To find the point where hypothesis and fact

"The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children."  Marian Wright  Edelman

"We don’t remember days; we remember moments." — Cesare Pavese

"A mother understands what a child does not say." — Jewish proverb

"Deciding to have kids means forever letting your heart walk around outside your body." — Alexa Junge

"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." — Herbert Sebastian Agar

"Truth is in things, and not in words." — Herman Mellville

"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of the situation. Then decide what you’re going to do  about it." — Kathleen Casey Theisen

"Truth never damages a cause that is just." — Mohandas K. Gandhi

"Learn what is true, in order to do what is right,’ is the summing up of the whole duty of man." — Thomas Henry Huxley

"Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch." — Samuel Butler

"How to be a better reporter: See a thing clearly and describe it simply." — Arthur Brisbane

"The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something. . . . To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one." — John Ruskin

"Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell." — Mason Cooley

"Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence." — Harry Essex

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." — Benjamin Franklin

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." — Jerome K. Jerome

"Work to me is a sacred thing." — Margaret Bourke-White

"Work though we must, our jobs do not automatically determine our priorities concerning our marriages, our children, our social  life, or even our health. … we’re still responsible for making [life] something we enjoy or endure."    Melinda M. Marshall

"Work, work, work, is the main thing." — Abraham Lincoln

"A pint can’t hold a quart—if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it." — Margaret Deland

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you  because you are a vegetarian." — Dennis Wholey

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." — Bill Cosby

"Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures." — Henry David Thoreau

"I can’t imagine going on when there are no more expectations." — Dame Edith Evans

"Sometimes I go about with pity for myself and all the while Great Winds are carrying me across the sky." — Ojibway proverb

"Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." — Max Ehrmann

"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger."  Saint  Basil

"One of the greatest joys in life is to be in search of one thing and to discover another." — Anne Wilson Schaef

"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds." — Edward Abbey

"growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." — Henry Miller

"Look twice before you leap." — Charlotte Brontë

"Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." — D.H. Lawrence

"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is." — Mason Cooley

"Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around  the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap." — Dorothy Corkville Briggs

"I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise  interferes with any other man’s rights." — Abraham Lincoln

"We must place first the responsibility we owe not to our party or even to our constituents but to our individual consciences."  John F. Kennedy

"It is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another’s keeping." — Theodore Roosevelt

"We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government—a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance." — Gerald R. Ford

"Our Government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free. That civilized men need no restraint but that imposed by themselves against the abuse of freedom." — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything." —  Katharine Hepburn

"Choose thy love. Love thy choice." — German proverb

"Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough."  Dinah Shore

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit." — Peter Ustinov

"I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved." — George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)