some quotes to ponder

"Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than you need."--Kahlil Gibran

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people."--William Butler Yeats

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."--Winston Churchill

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."--Immanuel Kant

"If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius."--Joseph Addison

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."--Anatole France

"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 yesterdays by our todays, to do our work with more force than ever before."--Stewart B.Johnson

"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out and meet it."--Pericles

"Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”--William Arthur Ward

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."--Abraham Lincoln

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."--Albert Einstein

"Be a fountain, not a drain."--Rex Hudler

"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."--Robert Louis Stevenson

"Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience."--Hyman Rickover

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."--John Wesley

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."--Aristotle

"You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."--Bonnie Prudden

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."--Soren Kierkegaard

"We go where our vision is."--Joseph Murphy

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."--George Bernard Shaw

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."--Leon J. Suenes

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."--Doris Lessing

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."--Seneca