Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change, you will change.
Dr. Robert Anthony

“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

– John Wooden, Basketball Coach

The more clarity one brings to a problem, the closer one gets to solving it.
Floyd Maxwell

“Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”

– George Sand, Novelist

“Happiness is not a goal, it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality, a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.
Volker Braun

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn

“Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.”

– Brian Tracy, Author

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. The man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
George Bernard Shaw

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

– Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist

Power is the ability to do good things for others.
Brooke Astor

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

– William Faulkner, Novelist

Through self-awareness, we set goals with realistic stretch, and stay open to conscience-driven change.

Stephen R. Covey

“Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you’re ready to play as tough as you’re able to, you’d better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it all you’ve got.”

– Larry Bird, NBA Basketball Player

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
Julia Sorel

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Jane Haddam

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

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

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Watterson Lowe