Being Happy

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

~Author unknown but greatly appreciated

You Will Become

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

~James Allen

Genius

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

~C.W. Ceran

I Firmly Believe

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect.

~Neil Simon

To Look

to look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.

~ Edward Everett Hale

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