We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
—Adlai Stevenson (American Diplomat)
I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.
—Michael Jordan (American Sportsperson)
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.
—Andrew Carnegie (Scottish-American Industrialist, Philanthropist)
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (French Novelist, Aviator)
A human thought is an actual existence, and a force and power, capable of acting upon and controlling matter as well as mind.
—Albert Pike (American Military Leader)
We are more than what we do… much more than what we accomplish… far more than what we possess.
—William Arthur Ward (American Author)
As you grow older, you stand for more and fall for less.
—Anonymous
The tree may be cut back, but it grows again.|The moon may wane, but it shines anew.|Good men go on despite calamities.
—Indian Proverb
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be—not what you nag them to be.
—Scudder Parker (American Minister)
I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.
—Alan Greenspan (American Economist)