Michelangelo - Goals

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

Demosthenes - Attitude

"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true."

Jonathan Kozol - winning

"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."

Anais Nin - Life

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."

Carlos Castaneda - Maturity

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

John F. Kennedy - Forgive your enemies

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

Buckminster Fuller - Creativity

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

Frederick Douglass - Self Respect

"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

Dale Carnegie

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

Goethe - Worth

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Arthur Schopenhauer - perspective

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Albert Einstein - Knowledge & Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create."

Blaise Pascal - Humility

"Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself."

Anne Bradstreet - Wealth

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."