Quotes

1. "Life is not for learning, nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life." by Herbert Spencer

2. Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.
   Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American Author)

3. Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
   Muhammad Ali (1942-, American Boxer)

4. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
   John Enoch Powell (1912-, British Statesman)

5. The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.
   Bobby Knight (1940-, American Basketball Coach)

6. Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
   Herbert Agar (American Author 1897-1980)

7. The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
   Mark Twain (1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer)

8. The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist)

9. I am a big believer in the "mirror test." All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
   John McKay

10. There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
    Phyllis Bottome

11. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
    Andrew Carnegie
    (1835-1919, American industrialist, philanthropist)

12. Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.
    Kathleen Casey Theisen