“Don’t spend your precious time asking ‘Why isn’t the world a better place?’ It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is ‘How can I make it better?’ To that there is an answer.”

- Leo F. Buscaglia

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever – the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.”

- Vince Lombardi

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”

- Arthur Ashe

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. they make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

- Conrad Hilton

For with these always in hand, you will be a winner today and every day!

“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

- Michael J. Fox

“Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one’s better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.”

- Maxwell Maltz

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

- Johnny Cash

“Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”

- Epictetus

“The obstacles that others put in our path can be pushed aside in any number of ways. The obstacles that you put in your own way can be removed only by the same hands.”

- Sophia Bedford-Pierce

“Finish each day and be done with it…You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson