Opportunity knocks at the strangest times yet it's not the time that matters but how you answer the door.
Steve Gray

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing -- that is enough for one man's life.

Thomas Stearns Eliot

If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them.
Yachtsman's Credo

Success is a direction more than a destination. The real rewards of success begin to accrue as soon as you start moving yourself forward with a positive, sustained focus.
Ralph Marston

“Miracles can be made, but only by sweating.”

– Giovanni Agnelli, Industrialist

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

– Norman Schwarzkopf, Army General

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.
Tryon Edwards

“Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.”

– Epictetus, Philosopher

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.
David Gergen

Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
Bill Meyer

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes