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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -Alfred Adler

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. -Muhammed Ali

Learning is finding out what you already know. -Richard Bach

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. -Alexander Graham Bell

Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space. -Diana Black

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. -David Brinkley

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My sun sets to raise again. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. -George-Louis De Buffon

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. -Arthur Calwell

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -Jonathan Carroll (Outside the Dog Museum)

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -Tom Clancy

When you have nothing to say, say nothing. -Charles Caleb Colton

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius

The cautious seldom err. -Confucuis

I think, therefore I am. -Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. -Rene Descartes

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -Thomas Dewar

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. -Thomas Edison

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas A. Edison

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. -Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -Albert Einstein

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always do what you are afraid to do. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. -Epictetus

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. -Henry Ford

We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. -Francois

Well done is better than well said. -Benjamin Franklin

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom -Robert Frost

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost

All things are difficult before they are easy. -Thomas Fuller

We only part to meet again. -John Gay

Expressing anger is a form of public littering. -Willard Gaylin

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

Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Leadership is action, not position.

Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is a progress, working together is success.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand, but in which direction we are going.

Everything is possible for those who have persistence

Winners must have two things: definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them

A man who has imagination has wings.

Determination is often the first chapter in the book of excellence

Giving a hand makes all the difference.

You can't let go and still win.

It's a solo performance that only you can control.

Climb as high as you can dream.

You can succeed best and quickest by helping other to succeed

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

The world has a habit of making room for those who know where they are going

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

The key to happiness is freedom, and the key to freedom is courage

The will to do, the soul to dare.

What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work

There is in this world no greater force than the force of a man determined to rise

The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Winners don't wait for chances, they take them.

The key to happiness is freedom, and the key to freedom is courage.

When we all work together, we all win together.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Don't follow where the path may lead. Instead, make your own way and leave a path.

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.

We make way for the one who pushes past us.

You can't set the course for where you're going till you know where you are.

Give every challenge your best shot.

Persistence: the ability to overcome the obstacles along the way.

If you have a goal, failure is impossible.

There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Some dreams of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them

There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas Edison

The more I practice, the luckier I get.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.