"Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." Henry Clay

"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances."
--Bruce Barton

"Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what a reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character."Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest." Mark Twain

If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.
Zig Ziglar

"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments."
  Henry Ward Beecher

You can finish school, and even make it easy -but you never finish your education,and it's seldom easy.
Zig Ziglar

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." Kahlil Gibran

"What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love . . . Give it the best there is in you . . . Seize your opportunities And be a member of the team. In no country but America, I believe, is it possible to fulfill all four of these requirements." Benjamin F. Fairless

"We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective." General Dwight David Eisenhower

"Hell, there are no rules here ? we're trying to accomplish something." Thomas Alva Edison

"Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can."
Henry Drummond

"We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mastery over yourself. . . . It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting." Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

"This became a credo of mine . . . attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Bette Davis

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." Frank Clark

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." William Jennings Bryan

"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings." William Blake

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." Bruce Barton

"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth." Anonymous

"To go beyond is as bad as to fall short." Anonymous

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar

"The man who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep." Anonymous

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce." Anonymous

Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
Zig Ziglar

"Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk." Anonymous

"If you don?t climb the mountain, you can?t view the plain." Anonymous

"God put me on Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die! " Anonymous

"Encouraged people achieve the best; dominated people achieve second best; neglected people achieve the least."
Anonymous

"The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful." Alfred Adler

"Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done and fools
what they wish to do." French

"I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling." J.R. Simplot