Ability

There is something that is much more scarce , something rarer than ability.  It is the ability to recognize ability.

~ Robert Half

Extra...

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

The Reward

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

~John Ruskin

Happiness

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

~Franklin Roosevelt

Greatness

The price of greatness is responsibility.

~ Winston Churchill

The Rate of the Pack

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

Hustle...

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

~ Abraham Lincoln

All things

All things are difficult before they are easy.

~John Norley

Excellence

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

~Vince Lombardi

Those Who Do Not Know

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

~Golda Meir

Make a Contribution

When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Success

Success can make you go one of two ways.  It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

~Barbara Walters

Accept What Comes

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

I Am Only One...

I am only one; but still I am one.  I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

~Helen Keller

Willingness

It is not fair to ask of other what you are not willing to do yourself.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Being Powerful

Being powerful is like being a lady.  If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

~Margaret Thatcher

Mistakes

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

~Pearl S. Buck

Aspirations

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.  I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

~ Louisa May Alcott

God Does Not Ask

Got does not ask your ability or your inability.  He only asks your availability.

~Mary Kay Ash

We Must Do....

I gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which I must stop and look fear in the face...I say to myself, I've lived through this and can take the next thing that comes along...
We must do the things we think we cannot do.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

What Remains...

I never notice what has been done.
I only see what remains to be done.

~Madame Curie