Abigail Adams

• Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for the ardour and attended to with dilligence.

Abigail Van Buren

• The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abraham Lincoln

• The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
• I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

Agatha Christie

• The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original tinking and may have valuable results.

Albert Camus

• Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Einstein

• Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• I never think of the future.  It comes soon enough.
• The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
• I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attemt to acquire it.

Albert Schweitzer

• Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.

Alexander Chase

• To remain young  one must change.

Alexander Pope

• Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Alfred Edward Perlman

• After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully.  After five years, look at it with suspicion.  And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

Amy Tan

• If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

An Wang

• Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Anita Roddick

• If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anonymous or Unknown

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
• Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.  Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
• When the wind of change blows, some build walls, others build windmills.
• To change and to improve are two different things.
• If you change the way you work, you will change the way you think.
• When all is breaking up, something new is breaking through.
• Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow - what a Ride!"
• All roads lead to success - even the detours.
• Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something.
• Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
• If I keep an open mind, will my brain fall out?

Anthony J. D'Angelo

• Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
• Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
• Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life.  It is not something discovered: It is something molded.

Aristotle

• For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
• What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.
• We are what we repeatedly do.
• Anything that we have to learn, we learn by the actually doing of it: we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.

Arthur Koestler

• Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Arthur VanGundy, Ph.D.

• Throwing away ideas too soon is like opening a package of flower seeds and then throwing them away because they're not pretty.

B. B. King

• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Barbara De Angelis

• No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara Sher

• Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love.  We are like violins.  We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.

Ben Nicholas

• If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Benjamin Franklin

• Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve.
• Take time for all things.
• Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

Benjamin Hooke

• If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one is following, then you are just out walking.

Benjamin Mays

• The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.  The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.

Bertie Charles Forbes

• One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than 50 half-finished tasks.
• How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts.  In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.  The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

Bill Vaughan

• People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Blaine Lee

• We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

Booker T. Washington

• A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.

Brendan Francis

• Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

Brian Koslow

• Many people like to think that they'll find balance AFTER they find success. But in reality, achieving balance IS success.

Buddha

• All that we are is the result of what we have thought.  The mind is everything.  What we think, we become.

Buddhist Proverb

• When the student is ready, the master appears.

Burt Lawlor

• Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.

Calvin Coolidge

• We cannot do everything at once, But we can do something at once.

Carl Rowan

• Learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.

Carolyn Kenmore

• If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

Chaing Kai-Shek

• We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Charles C. Noble

• You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Charles Darwin

• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.

Charles F. Kettering

• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Handy

• A society dedicated to the enrichment and enhancement of the self will only survive and certainly will only prosper if the dominant ethic is the support and encouragement of others,

Charles Sanders Peirce

• It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

Charles Stewart Parnell

• Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

Charlotte Bunch

• We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act...It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

Chinese Proverb

• A super person brings out the best in others.
• If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
• In doing anything, the first step is the most difficult.
• Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.
• A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
• Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
• If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

Christina Baldwin

• When you're stuck in a spiral, to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Christopher Bartlett

• You cannot renew a company without revitalising its people.

Clare Boothe Luce

• There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Clarence Birdseye

• Enthusiasm and hard work are indispensable ingredients of achievement.  So is stick-to-it-iveness.

Claude Bernard

• It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Clay P. Bedford

• You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.

Colonel Michael Friedman

• Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Confucius

• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
• Learning without thought is labor lost.
• What I hear, I forget.  What I see, I remember.  What I do, I understand.
• He who learns but does not think is lost!  He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

D. Blocher

• Learning is not a spectator sport.

Dag Hammarskjold

• Do not look back.  And do not dream about the future, either.  It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams.  Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

Dale Carnegie

• All life is a chance.  So take it!  The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare.

Daniel Goleman

• As work becomes more complex and collaborative, companies where people work together best have a competitive edge.

Danny Goodman

• From now on, change will be the constant.  The individuals best prepared to succeed are those who can learn, modify, and grow, regardless of age experience, or ego.

Debbie Ford

• Life is about learning and evolving into the highest expression of ourselves.

Diana Schneider

• Optimism is an intellectual choice.

Diane Sawyer

• I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention

Dinah Mulock Craik

• Keep what is worth keeping-And with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.

Diogenes

• When asked what learning was most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."

Dogen

• Truth is not faraway; it is ever present.  It is not something to be attained since not one of your steps leads away from it.

Dominic Cadbury

• Trust comes back to the character, behaviour and values of the company.  You only achieve trust and retain it if you behave in a way which inspires trust.

Doris Lessing

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

Doug Hall

• You can increase your brain power three to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem.

Doug Horton

• Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others.

Dr. Seuss

• Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.

Dudley Field Malone

• I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dwight Morrow

• The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.  Try, if you can, to belong to the first class.  There's far less competition.

E.W. Wilcox

• Life isn't about finding yourself...life is about creating yourself

Eartha Kitt

• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Eddie Rickenbacker

• I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it.  Brood about death and you hasten your demise.  Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and expe

Edgar Allan Poe  (1809 - 1849)

• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

• Thinking about change is a redundancy.  All thinking is about change.

Edward De Bono

• Humour is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
• There is mathematics, there are computers, and there are pictures, but the bulk of our communicated thinking is done with language.
• Perception is real - even when it is not reality.

Edward Scannell

• Retention is best when the learner is involved.

Eleanor Roosevelt

• You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Ellen Glasgow

• To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Epictetus

• It is your own conviction which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Erasmus

• When I get a little money, I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.

Eric Allenbaugh

• Every choice moves us closer or farther away from something.  Where are your choices taking your life?

Eric Hoffer

• In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Erich Fromm

• The more productively one lives, the stronger one's conscience, and, in turn, the more it furthers one's productiveness.

Ernest Hemingway

• Never confuse movement with action.

Euripdes

• There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:  a quiet conscience.
• The wisest men follow their own direction.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

• You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours.  When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Francis Bacon

• Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francois La Rochefoucauld

• We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us.
• The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

Frank Kingdom

• Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.

Frank Lloyd Wright

• I know the price of success; dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.  The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...

Frederick Buechner

• Listen to your life.  All moments are key moments.

Frederick Langbridge

• Two men look out through the same bars:  One sees the mud, and one the stars.

Frederick Pierce

• Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out

G. K. Chesterton

• The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things

Gail Sheehy

• The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

Galileo Galilei

• You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

George Bernard Shaw

• Most people don't take the time to think. I made an international reputation for myself by deciding to think twice a week.
• You see things and you say, "Why?"  But I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.  I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
• Common sense is instinct.  Enough of it is genius.
• One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

George Burns

• By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.

George Eliot

• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Gilder

• Entrepreneurs, in accepting risk, achieve security for all.  In embracing change, they ensure social and economic stability.

George Hegel

• Nothing great in this world has been accomplished without passion.

George Matthew Allen

• People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

George Santayana

• Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
• The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Georgie Anne Geyer

• Follow what you love!  Don't deign to ask what "they" are looking for out there.  Ask what you have inside.  Follow not your interests, which change, but what you are and what you love, which will and should not change.

Germaine Greer

• Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Gilbert Arland

• When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim-improve yourself.

Giosue Borsi

• When I talked, no one listened to me.  But as soon as I acted I became persuasive, and I no longer find anyone incredulous.

Gloria Anzaldua

• I change myself, I change the world.

George Sand

• One changes from day to day, and ...after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Goethe

• Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Goldie Hawn

• I must say that the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth. We're all built with illusions. And they break.

Hannah More

• It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know

Harold S. Geneen

• It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

Harry A. Hopf

• Often greater risk is involved in postponement than in making a wrong decision.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Harry S. Truman

• The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Helen Hayes

• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.

Helen Keller

• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
• When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Helena Petrova Blavatsky

• Knowledge increases in proportoin to its use--that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Henri Bergson

• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henry Adams

• They know enough who knows how to learn.

Henry Block

• We are forced to rely on our people, which is why we put so much emphasis on training them.

Henry David Thoreau

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
• It is not enough to be busy... the question is: what are we busy about?
• In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
• We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
• A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
• This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

Henry Ford

• Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't you're absolutely right.
• Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
• The more you think, the more time you have.
• Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

Henry James

• Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

Henry L. Doherty

• Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

Henry S. Haskins

• The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Henry Van Dyke

• Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look at the stars.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Perseverance is a great element of success.  If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Henry Ward Beecher

• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.

Heraclitus

• The river where you set your foot just now is gone - those waters give way to this, now this.
• Much learning does not teach understanding

Herbert Spencer

• The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herm Albright

• A positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

Hoffa

• In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Howard Thurman

• Don't ask what the world needs.  Rather ask - what makes you come alive? Then go and do it! Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Indira Gandhi

• Change is inevitable, but it is in us to control its content and directions.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

• We can build upon foundations anywhere, if they are well and truly laid.

J.A. Froude

• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

J.C. Hare & A.W. Hare

• Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Jacob Bronowski

• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.  The hand is the cutting edge of man.

James Allen

• The greatest achievements were at first, and for a time, dreams.  The oak sleeps in the acorn.

James Bryant Conant

• Behold the turtle.  He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

James Harvey Robinson

• Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

James. F. Byrnes

• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life than of death.

Jawaharlal Nehru

• Life is like a game of cards.  The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean Kerr

• I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure

Jiddu Krishnamurti

• The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Joan Didion

• The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan L. Brannon

• He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Johann von Goethe

• We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
• Knowing is not enough, we must apply.  Willing is not enough, we must do.
• To think is easy.  To act is difficult.  To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.
• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
• Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
• One must be something, in order to do something.

John Dewey

• Failure is instructive.  The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes

John F. Kennedy

• The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John Harvey-Jones

• Change is an attitude of mind and the place to start is within ourselves.

John Lubbock

• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

John Powell

• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

John Wicker

• Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected.  Life is a long line of opportunities.

John Wooden

• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

John Woods

• Things are hard before we know how to do them; afterwards, they are easy.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

• We cannot put off living until we are ready.  The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement.  Life is fired at us point-blank.

Joseph Campbell

• We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that's waiting for us.

Joseph Joubert

• He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.

Josephine Demott Robinson

• My one aim was to do a thing well, and to excel if possible.

Kahlil Gilbran

• The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach you to enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.

Katharine Hepburn

• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck.

Kathe Kollwitz

• I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.

Kathleeen Norris

• Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead....You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal.  Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kenneth Iverson

• Don't study the idea to death with experts and committees.  Get on with it and see if it works.

Kenneth S. Davis

• Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

Kierkegaard

• The door to happiness opens outward.

Kitty D'Alessio

• Open the windows, let in the year we're living in.

Kung Fu Tzu

• When you know something, say what you know. When you don't know something, say that you don't know. That is knowledge.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Lady Bird Johnson

• Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined, and vigorous person on it.  There must be somebody who provides the flame.

Lance Armstrong

• Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever.

Lao-tsu

• A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Laurence J. Peter

• If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Leonardo da Vinci

• First study the science, and than practice the art which is born of that science.
• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
• Learning never exhausts the mind.
• Every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power.

Lewis Carroll

• Begin at the beginning...and go on till you come to the end:  then stop.
• Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Livy

• Confidence placed in another often compels confidence in return.

Lloyd Alexander

• We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Lord Chesterfield

• Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success.  Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
• Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one.

Lord Macaulay

• Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Louis Pasteur

• Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal.  My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louisa May Alcott

• I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
• Far away 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.

Lucille Ball

• One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged.  Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Lucinda Basset

• You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular jog.  Life is not a dress rehearsal.  This is it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Lucretius

• The first beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

M. Scott Peck

• It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

Madeleine Albright

• As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance...but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still - and persevere.

Madeline Bridges, poet

• Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you.

Mahatma Gandhi

• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever.

Man Ray

• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just...to realize them.

Marcus Aurelius

• We are earth people on a spiritual journey to the stars.  Our quest, our earth walk, is to look within, to know who we are, to see that we are connected to all things, there is no separation, only in the mind.
• The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Margaret Anderson

• I have always fought for ideas -- until I learned that it isin't ideas but grief, struggle, and vision which enlighten.

Margaret Wheatley

• In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships.  The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks, functions, roles and positions.

Margery Allingham

• I am one of those people who are blessed...with a nature which has to interfere.  If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

Maria Irene Fornes

• You die when you are faking it, and you are alive when you are truthful.

Maria Mitchell

• Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned -- not to see what is not.

Marianne Williamson

• Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Marie Beynon Ray

• Begin doing what you want to do now.

Mark Twain

• Courage is the mastery of fear - not absence of it.
• Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
• If you can hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
• The older we grow, the greater becomes our wonder.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

• To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Marsha Sinetar

• Do what you love, the money will follow.

Martin Palmer

• The secret to mastery in any field is to forever be a student.

Martin Vanbee

• Learn from the mistakes of other, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Marvin Bower

• In all successful professional groups, regard for the individual is based not on title, but on competence, stature, and leadership.

Marvin Minsky

• You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Mary Anne M.B.L. Radmacher

• To hold and nurture a dream is to affirm all that is possible.

Mary Kay Ash

• If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't you're right.

Max De Pree

• In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Mignon McLaughlin

• Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Mortimer Adler

• The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Mother Theresa

• There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love.

Napoleon

• Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officals, but always by inspiring the people.  Imagination rules the world.

Napoleon Hill

• Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
• The world has the habit of making way for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Happiness is a butterfly, which...if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nikki Giovanni

• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts.

Noah benShea

• Do not kiss your children so they kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children.

Norman Vincent Peale

• Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders.  The world would go on without you.  Don't take yourself so seriously.

Og Mandino

• Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Oliver Goldsmith

• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Oprah Winfrey

• Books were my pass to personal freedom.  I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Orison Swett Marden

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

Oscar Wilde

• To be on the alert is to live; to be lulled into security is to die.
• Things are in their essence what we choose to make them.
• The aim of life is self-development.  To realize one's nature perfectly- that is what each of us is here for.

Pablo Picassso

• I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Patty Hansen

• You create your opportunities by asking for them.

Paul J. Meyer

• Honest measure of your success is what you are doing compared to your true potential.

Paul MacCready, Inventor

• The only dumb question is a question you don't ask.

Percy Barnevik

• When you are through changing, you are through.

Peter Kindersley

• Through the picture I see reality; through the word I understand it.

Peter Senge

• Shared vision is vital for the learning organization because it provides the focus and energy for learning.

Philip Crosby

• Making a wrong decision is understandable.  Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Proverb

• He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

R.G. Collingwood

• Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and, in that work, does what he wants to do.

Ralph Abernathy

• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
• Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
• Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
• When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
• Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.

Ramsay Clark

• Turbulence is a life force.  It is opportunity.  Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ray LeBlond

• You learn something every day if you pay attention.

Regis McKenna

• It is ironic but true that in this era of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.

Robert Benchley

• There may be said to be two classes of people in the world:  Those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Robert Browning

• Less is more

Robert Frost

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or you self confidence.

Robert Green Ingersoll

• The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Robert Greenleaf

• Many attempts to communicate are nullified by saying too much.

Robert H. Schuller

• I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
• Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
• Winning starts with beginning.

Robert Heller

• Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Robert Leighton

• The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.

Robert Louis Stevenson

• That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Lynd

• One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Ron Ashkenas

• When competencies are not developed at all levels, companies often get into trouble.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

• Working cooperatively is crucial because you can't count on the power of your position anymore; you have to count on the power of your ideas.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

• Companies that stay ahead of change are ones in which their people see change as something they themselves accomplish and not something that is imposed on them.  They see lots of opportunities to take initiative.

Rumi

• Let yourself be silently drawn by the pull of what you love.

Ruth Stafford Peale

• Find a need and fill it.

S. J. Perelman

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Saint Bartholomew

• Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

Sallust

• Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

Sam Levenson

• You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Sam M. Walton

• Listen to everyone in your company and figure out ways to get them talking.

Samuel Butler

• Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Johnson

• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
• No man was ever great by imitation.
• Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Saraha

• Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.

Scott Reed

• Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

Sir Francis Bacon

• All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

Sir James Barrie

• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

Sir John Lubbock

• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Sir Richard Steele

• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir William Osler

• To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosopyy of practical life.

Sir Winston Churchill

• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Sivananda

• Be for ever a student.  He and he alone is an old man who feels he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

Socrates

• The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
• I cannot teach anybody anthing, I can only make them think.

Sonia Johnson

• We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Sophocles

• One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
• A man, though wise should never be ashamed / of learning more, and must unbend his mind."

Soren Kierkegaard

• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Stephen Covey

• If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences.  You can consciously create your own.
• Your attitude determines your altitude.

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple

• The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Steward B. Johnson

• 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 today, to do our work with more force than ever before.

Storm Jameson

• There is only one world, the world pressing against you this minute.

Susan B. Anthony

• The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.

T.S. Eliot

• Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Taylor Caldwell

• Learning...should be a joy and full of excitement.  It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the mind of noble and learned men.

Theodor Reik

• Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

Theodore Parker

• The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Thomas A. Edison

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.
• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
• I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.

Thomas Carlyle

• Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will be able to see further.

Thomas Henry Huxley

• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
• Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Tin Cup (the movie)

• When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things.  Define the moment, or let the moment define you.

Tina Turner

• The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.

Unknown

• I turned my head only for a moment and the moment became my life.

Victor Hugo

• The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Vincent Van Gogh

• The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reasons for remaining ashore.
• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Virgil

• Look with favour upon a bold beginning.
• Believe one who has tried it.

W. Edwards Deming

• Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival.

W. Sommerset Maugham

• There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Will Durant

• Forget mistakes.  Forget failures.  Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.  Today is your lucky day.

Willa Cather

• There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm

William A. Ward

• Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William B. Given, Jr.

• When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future.  A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.

William Blake

• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
• The truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

William Butler

• In dreams begins responsibility.

William Hazlitt

• Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

William J. Johnston

• The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude.  Right attitudes produce right actions.

William James

• The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
• Seek out that particular mental attitude which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

William Jennings Bryan

• 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 Makepeace Thackeray

• Life is a mirror; if you frown at it, it frowns back: if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Penn

• Never chide with anger, but instruction.

William Scherkenbach

• Management will recognize the need for education and retraining when they realize that people are an asset not an expense.

William Shakespeare

• When the sea was calm, all boats alike show'd mastership in floating.
• A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
• A good heart...is the sun... for it shines bright and never changes...
• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
• Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Wilson Mizner

• Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.

Winifred Holtby

• The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

Winston Churchill

• All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Woodrow Wilson

• The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.