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1001 Inspirational Quotes

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Note from John P. Strelecky Hi, You have in front of you the 1001 Inspirational Quotes Book. There are over one thousand, one hundred and fifty quotes in here. All are searchable either by specific words, or by the person who said the quote. For example if you want to find just the quotes with the word “heart”, you can go up to the menu options and select Edit, and then select Search. On the right hand side of the screen a window will appear where you can type in the word heart. Once you hit the search button, all the locations with the word heart will be found, and links to them will appear in the little window. Just click on the link, and it takes you right to the spot in the book where heart appears. Super easy to use, and super useful. As a writer of inspirational books, I use quotes quite a bit, and I found myself spending hours searching through website after website to find what I wanted. Compiling this book was my solution. It sounded easy, and then ended up taking WAY more time than I thought. Nonetheless, it has saved me many, many hours since then, and I know it will do the same for you. This way all the quotes are in one spot, they are searchable, and you don’t need to be connected to the web to access them.

Enjoy! John

John P. Strelecky Author – The Why Cafe, Return to The Why Cafe, Life Safari, The Big Five for Life

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1001 Inspirational Quotes

“...character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion...” Aristotle “...leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully...they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning--from one's own life and experience.” Warren Bennis “...leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence...not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.” Marsha Sinetar “...positive attitudes...come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free! “ Harvey Mackay “...power is not really good or bad; it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.” Blaine Lee “...the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value.” Thomas Paine “...until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise." “ Stephen Covey “...we come to beginnings only at the end. “ William Bridges “A bold onset is half the battle.” Giuseppe Garibaldi “A chain is as strong as its weakest link.” Danish Proverb Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

1001 Inspirational Quotes

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.” Thomas Szasz “A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.” Anonymous “A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. “ Harvey Mackay “A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.” Elbert Hubbard “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” Fr. Jerome Cummings “A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.” General Douglas MacArthur “A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” Buddha, Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism “A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.” Canary Island Proverb “A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.” Iranian Proverb “A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.” Confucius “A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.” Polybius “A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.” Islamic Proverb

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“A leader is a dealer in hope.” Napoleon Bonaparte “A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” Edgar J. Mohn “A life lived in fear is half lived.” Anonymous “A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” Kahlil Gibran “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. “ Winston Churchill “A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.” Anonymous “A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.” Anonymous “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from Faust “A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.” Samuel Butler “A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.” Confucius “A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.” Zadok Rabinwitz “A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.” Dag Hammarskjold

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“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.” Joseph Joubert, French philosopher “A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.” Mohammed “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Walter Winchell “A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.” Ovid “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” William Shedd “A short saying often contains much wisdom.” Sophocles “A small house will hold a hundred friends.” African Proverb “A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” Anonymous “A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.” Anonymous “A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.” Anonymous “A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.” Anonymous “A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.” Anonymous “A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.” Bertrand Russell “A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Karl Kraus “A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb “

“A wise man makes his own decisions; an ignorant man follows the public opinion.” Chinese Proverb “A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.” Sir Francis Bacon “A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.” Henry David Thoreau “Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.” Donald A. Laird “Ability is sexless.” Christabel Pankhurst “Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” George S. Patton “Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.” Nigerien Proverb “Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.” Mingjiao, Jiufeng Annals “Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.” Michael Johnson “Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. “ Robert Half “Action is the antidote to despair.” Joan Baez Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Benjamin Disraeli “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal.” Mary Beard “Actions speak louder than words.” English Proverb “Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education. “ Stephen Covey “Adventure is worthwhile.” Amelia Earhart “Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.” Leighton “Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.” Horace “Adversity it sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.” Thomas Carlyle “Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.” Danish proverb “Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.” Lord Chesterfield “After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.” Anonymous “Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.” Robert H. Schuller Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?” Robert Browning “All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.” President Lyndon Johnson “All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.” Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia “All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.” Henry David Thoreau “All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.” Walter Anderson “All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.” William James “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.” Samuel Butler “All progress occurs because people dare to be different “ Harry Milner “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope. “ Winston Churchill Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude. “ Harvey Mackay “All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind. “ Stephen Covey “All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.” Anonymous “All work is empty save when there is love.” Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer “Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it; they feel it; they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. “ Stephen Covey “Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.” William Feather “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller “Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.” Michael Johnson “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” Abraham Lincoln “Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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John Churton Collins “An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool--shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple--teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise--follow him “ Lady Isabel Burton “An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.” Chinese proverb “An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.” Napoleon Bonaparte “An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my selfbeing; if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.” Karl Jaspers “An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.” Anatole France “An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.” John H. Patterson “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” Buddha “An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. “ Winston Churchill “And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.” Samuel Coleridge

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“And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be yet thankful.” Colossians 3:15 “Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” Publilius Syrus “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein “Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.” Anonymous “Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it ... we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.” Aristotle, Ethics “Are we to love only those who deserve our love? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:43-45 “Are you fit company for the person you wish to become?” Anonymous “As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother? “ Christy Borgeld “As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives--you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. “ Stephen Covey “As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.” Michael Johnson Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Nelson Mandela “As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others. “ Stephen Covey “As you think in your heart, so shall you be.” Proverbs, 23:7 “Ask for advice but do what you think is best.” Greek proverb “At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.” John P. Strelecky “At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.” Hudson newsletter “Attitude determines altitude.” Anonymous “Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.” Peter Koestenbaum “Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.” Gabonese Proverb “Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. “ Stephen Covey “Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. “ Stephen Covey

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“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.” Sidonie Gabrielle “Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there. “ Harvey Mackay “Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all. “ Harvey Mackay “Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs. “ Stephen Covey “Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.” Confucius “Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.” Afghan Proverb “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. “ Stephen Covey “Be the change you want to see in the world” Ghandi “Be useful where thou livest.” George Herbert “Be who you are in every situation.” Michael Johnson “Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another “ Emma Goldman “Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.” Helen Keller “Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Chinese Proverb “Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose. “ Stephen Covey “Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose. “ Stephen Covey “Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.” Ella Williams “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew 5:9”

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him ‘father.’” Lydia Maria Child “Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.” English proverb “Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness! “ George Jacques Danton “But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin; it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene; if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.” Karl Jaspers “But we cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.” Karl Jaspers “But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.” William Shakespeare Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful. “ Winston Churchill “Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” Joshua J. Marine “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.” Anonymous “Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it.” Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat. “Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.” Henry Steele Commager “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale “Change yourself, change your fortunes.” Portuguese Proverb “Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.” Philip Brooks “Children are the reward of life.” Congolese Proverb “Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” Harold Hulbert “Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction” Anne Sullivan “Come forth into the light of things; Let nature be your Teacher.” William Wordsworth

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“Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.” Abraham Maslow “Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only “ Plautus “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” Lucretius “Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential. “ Winston Churchill “Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.” James 1:24, RSV “Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.” Martin Luther King, Jr. “Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit; an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.” Lord Moran “Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill “Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.” Rollo May “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” Ambrose Redmoon Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others. “ Winston Churchill “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. “ Winston Churchill “Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it. “ Winston Churchill “Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere. “ Harvey Mackay “Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.” Bruce Lee “Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success. “ Stephen Covey “Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.” Abraham Lincoln “Devotion is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.” J.F.T. Bugental “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” William Ellery Channing “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.” Seneca “Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Christian Nestell Bovee “Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.” Jim Rohn “Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.” Oscar Wilde “Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.” Berthold Auerbach “Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Buddha “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Harold R. McAlindon “Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.” Czech Proverb “Do not wait for ideal circumstances; they will never come; nor for the best opportunities.” Janet Erskine Stuart “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” Mother Teresa “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William B. Sprague “Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?” George Eliot

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“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it--immediately. “ Stephen Covey “Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.” Anonymous “Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.” David Ogilvy “Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.” Dorothy Day “Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you. “ Harvey Mackay “Don't fear, just live right.” Neal A. Maxwell “Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth. “ Winston Churchill “Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time. “ Harvey Mackay “Don't water your weeds. “ Harvey Mackay “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” Dr. Dale Turner “Each action can be the one on which all depends; what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment.' “ Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Martin Buber “Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being--as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.” Francis Wilson “Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.” Martin Buber “Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living. “ William Bridges “Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” Robert F. Kennedy “Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.” G. M. Trevelyan British historian “Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.” William Lowe Bryan “Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.” Brigham Young “Education means inspiring someone’s mind, not just filling their head.” Katie Lusk “Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” Malcolm Forbes “Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. “ Stephen Covey “Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. “ Harvey Mackay Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream. “ Harvey Mackay “Every artist was first an amateur.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” Aldous Huxley “Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.” Marion G. Romney “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.” Henry David Thoreau “Every hand does its part to hold up the world”

“Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.” Hubert Bonner “Every human heart is human.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.” Warren G. Bennis

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“Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.” Persian Proverb “Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.” Sir J. Stephen “Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.” Herman Hesse “Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.” Richard Saunders “Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.” Anonymous “Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.” Karl G. Maeser “Examine the opportunities, the challenges you’ve given yourself.” Michael Johnson “Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.” Anonymous “Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.” Leonard Berry “Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” Anonymous “Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.” Aldous Huxley “Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Oscar Wilde “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” Benjamin Disraeli “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 “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.” Anonymous “Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan. “ Harvey Mackay “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Theodore Roosevelt “Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure...than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt “Fathers are like a lighthouse… when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.” Christy Borgeld “Fear is the parent of cruelty.” J.A. Froude “Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.” Unknown “Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” Virginia Satir “Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life. “ Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Harvey Mackay “Find the good -- and praise it.” Alex Haley “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” Epictetus “Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.” Thomas Henry Huxley “Follow peace with all men.” Hebrews 12:14 “For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.” John Greenleaf Whittier “For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.” William J. Bennett “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” Matthew Prior “For if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.” Rollo May “For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. “ Winston Churchill “For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.” Donald Williams “Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.” Epictetus “Fortune favors the brave.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Publius Terence “Fractures well cured make us more strong.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.” Rollo May “Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety; to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.” Rollo May “Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one. “ Harvey Mackay “Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.” Egyptian Proverb “Friendship is not born of words alone.” Armenian Proverb “From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.” Abraham Maslow “From success to failure is one step; from failure to success is a long road.” Yiddish Proverb “Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.” Alfred North Whitehead “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift me lamp beside the golden door.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Emma Lazarus, American poet: inscription on the Statue of Liberty, New York “Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect. “ Robert Half “Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.” Confucius “Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.” Lao Tzu “Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.” Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog “Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life. “ Harvey Mackay “God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.” Bambara Proverb “God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.” Ethel Watts Mumford “Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.” French Proverb “Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. “ Harvey Mackay “Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” Bill Blackman “Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.” William Ellery Channing Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Great men are not always wise.” Job 32:9 “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein “Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.” Sidney Jourard “Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. “ Stephen Covey “Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.” Storm Jameson “Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.” Ingrid Bergman “Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.” Benjamin Franklin “Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.” Aristotle “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.” Leo Tolstoy “Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.” Douglas Jerrold

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“Happiness is a state of activity.” Aristotle “Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.” Burton Hills “Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.” Alice Meynell “Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” Margaret B. Runbeck “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the byproduct of other activities.” Aldous Huxley “Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.” Anonymous “Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence: the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.” Erich Fromm “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” J. Petit Senn “Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.” Spanish Proverb “Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” Democritus “Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” Leon J. Suenes “Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does. “ Harvey Mackay

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“Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.” Anonymous “Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.” The Book of Proverbs “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Isaiah 40:29-31 “He that has done nothing has known nothing.” Thomas Carlyle “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” Benjamin Franklin “He that would be a leader must be a bridge.” Welsh Proverb “He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.” Proverbs “He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.” Anonymous “He who has great power should use it lightly.” Seneca “He who has hope has everything.” Arabian Proverb “He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.” Solon “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” Aristotle “He who hesitates is lost.” Proverb Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.” Author unknown “He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.” German Proverb “He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” Icelandic Proverb “He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.” George Matthew Adams “He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.” Paul Tillich “He who seeks rest finds boredom....He who seeks work finds rest.” Anonymous “He who speaks the loudest is the least heard. “ Robert Half “He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.” Japanese Proverb “Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost; the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.” Anonymous “History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.” Karl Marx “Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.” Clark Moustakas Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Honesty is the best image.” Tom Wilson “Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.” Mary Kay Ash “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson “Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.” F.M. Hubbard “Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.” Vaclav Havel “Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.” Anonymous “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” Emily Dickenson “How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.” Anonymous “How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?” Henry David Thoreau “How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. “ Stephen Covey

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“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” George Washington Carver “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard “How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character. “ Robert Half “Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.” Bill Cosby “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams “I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.” Henri Nouwen “I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Thomas A. Edison “I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop. “ Winston Churchill “I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.” Henry David Thoreau “I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred —that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.” Harriet Beecher Stowe “I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart – the best brain.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Robert Ingersoll “I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.” Michael Johnson “I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past. “ Stephen Covey “I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.” Charles Schwab “I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.” Firdtjof Nansen “I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.” Robert Southey “I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality. “ Winston Churchill “I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.” Abraham Lincoln “I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!” Jerry Van Amerongen “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Henry David Thoreau “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.” John Stuart Mills “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. “ Winston Churchill “I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line?” Diogenes “I light my candle from their torches.” Robert Burton “I never worry about action, but only about inaction. “ Winston Churchill “I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” G. K. Chesterton “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century American civil rights leader “I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” Elie Wiesel “I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.” Paul McCartney

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“I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me; follow yourself!' is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.” Karl Jaspers “I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own. “ Winston Churchill “I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.” David O. McKay “Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.” Carl Schurz “Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.” Karl Jaspers “Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book--provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.” Erich Fromm “Ideas without action are worthless. “ Harvey Mackay “Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.” Alfred Whitefield “If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.” Chinese Proverb “If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.” Anonymous “If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.” Tom Peters “If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.” Paul "Bear" Bryant “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.” William Edward Hickson “If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.” Bonaro W. Overstreet “If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.” Mark Twain “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.” Romans 12:18 “If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible. “ Winston Churchill “If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.” Anonymous “If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.” Zen master Yuanwu “If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.” Anonymous “If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster. “ Stephen Covey “If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” Lucy Larcom “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass “If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised. “ Winston Churchill “If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.” William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) “If we all tired to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.” Myrtle Reed, American writer “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.” Orville Wright “If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.” Mahatma Gandhi “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. “ Winston Churchill

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“If you aren't going all the way, why go at all?” Joe Namath “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.” William Arthur Ward “If you can't accept losing, you can't win.” Vince Lombardi “If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.” Thomas Fuller “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” St. Clement of Alexandra “If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” Yogi Berra “If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.” Anonymous “If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit “If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.” Anne Mackay Thompson “If you feel you have no faults ... there's another one.” Anonymous “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” Henry David Thoreau “If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. “ Margaret Thatcher

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“If you know peace, then you thrive; if you know contentment, then you are rich.” Su Shi “If you mean to profit, learn to please. “ Winston Churchill “If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.” Anonymous “If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.” Mark Twain “If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.” Anonymous “If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” Abigail Van Buren “If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?" “ Dale Dauten “If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.” Bernard Haldane “If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them. “ Harvey Mackay “If you would create something, you must be something.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please.” Anonymous “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

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“If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.” Jonathan Winters “If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.” Anna Quindlen “If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.” Anonymous “If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own. “ Stephen Covey “Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.” Edmund Spenser “I'm going to stop procrastinating ... once I get around to it.” Anonymous “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein “Immaturity can last a lifetime. “ Robert Half “In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.” Author Unknown “In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day. “ Stephen Covey “In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.” Aristotle

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“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” Theodore Roosevelt “In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other... Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.” Martin Buber “In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.” Victor Cousins “In love beggar and king are equal.” Indian Proverb “In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it” Mary Norton Gordon “In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.” Brian Weir “In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Author unknown “In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide; without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly; only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.” Karl Jaspers “In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.” John Churton Collins “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” Galileo Galilei “In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” Albert Schweitzer

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“In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.” Albert Careb “In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.” Dalai Lama “In the space age the most important space is between the ears.” Anne Armstrong “In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.” Henry W. Longfellow “Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. “ Stephen Covey “Inspiration and genius--one and the same.” Victor Hugo “Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.” Christy Borgeld “Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.” James Anthony Froude “Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Anonymous “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil--the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.” William George Jordan “Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.” Japanese Proverb “It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow. “ Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Harvey Mackay “It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.” Isaac Asimov “It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled. “ Winston Churchill “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. “ Winston Churchill “It is absurd that a man should rule others, who cannot rule himself. (Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit.) “ Latin Proverb “It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see. “ Winston Churchill “It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.” Sandra Swinney “It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.” Terence “It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing. “ Winston Churchill “It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.” Chinese Proverb “It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Anonymous “It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.” Anonymous “It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Seneca “It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.” Washington Irving “It is love that makes the impossible possible.” Indian Proverb “It is never too late to be what we might have been” George Eliot “It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. “ Winston Churchill “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” Seneca “It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.” Greek Proverb “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” Hermann Hesse “It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake. “ Margaret Thatcher “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” Theodore Roosevelt “It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.” Nancy Banks-Smith “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” Seneca “It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.” Henry Ward Beecher “It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.” Aristotle “It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.” Alec Bourne “It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.” Anonymous “It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.” Henry Ward Beecher “It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.” Henry David Thoreau “It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.” Louis Kossuth “It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.” Joe Klock “It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.” Willie Mays Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, selfrealization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.” Abraham Maslow “It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.” Bishop Desmond Tutu “It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. “ Stephen Covey “It takes a whole village to raise a child.” African Proverb “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.” Anonymous “It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right. “ Robert Half “It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.” Rodney Dangerfield “It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. “ Winston Churchill “It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” Roy Disney “It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.” Jerry Greenfield, cofounder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy “Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.” Mother Teresa “Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.” Melba Colgrove “Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.” Dale Dauten “Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake.” Georgette Mosbacher “Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Mark Twain “Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it. “ Stephen Covey “Kind words conquer.” Tamil Proverb “Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.” C.N. Bovee “Kindness is always fashionable.” America E. Barr, British American writer

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“Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.” Emmanuel Swedenborg “Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.” Theodore Isaac Rubin “Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love...Kindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.” Randolph Ray “Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.” Margaret Laurence “Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you cannot succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.” Warren Bennis “Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.” Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.” Erich Fromm “Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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William Cowper “Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; wisdom is humble that she knows no more.” Cowper “Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.” George Santayana “Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.” Bill Jensen “Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.” Cullen Hightower “Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.” Albert Einstein “Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails. “ Robert Half “Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.” Woodrow Wilson “Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.” Max DePree “Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” Dwight D. Eisenhower “Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.” Indian Proverb “Learning karate requires self-control and discipline” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.” Carl Sandburg “Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.” Thomas Carlyle “Let him that would move the world first move himself.” Socrates “Let thy words be few.” Ecclesiastes 5:2 from Words of Wisdom “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain “Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.” Mother Teresa, Albanian Roman Catholic missionary in India “Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...” Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:15 (see also v.14- 16) “Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.” Bill Blackman “Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.” Anonymous “Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.” Mary MacCracken “Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Viktor Frankl “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Soren Kierkegaard “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.” Danny Kaye “Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.” John P. Strelecky “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.” John Lennon “Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend; there, the whole aspect of things changes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning” Thomas Kempis “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” Martin Luther King, Jr. “Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.” Bernice Johnson Reagon “Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.” Larry Scherwitz “Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.” Washington Irving “Live out of your imagination, not your history. “ Stephen Covey

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“Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.” General Peter Schoomaker “Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem. “ Stephen Covey “Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past”

“Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in; and lend a hand.” E. E. Hale “Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.” Marcus Aurelius “Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. “ Stephen Covey “Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” Anonymous “Love sees roses without thorns.” German Proverb “Love understands all languages.” Romanian Proverb “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Darrell Royal, Sports in America, 1976 “Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.” Anonymous “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.” Zig Ziglar “Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.” A. P. Gouthey “Make the second effort your second nature. “ Harvey Mackay “Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.” Anton Chekhov, author “Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.” Tom Clancy “Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.” Martin Buber “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” Jean Jacques Rousseau “Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.” Ernest Hemingway “Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.” Rene Dubos “Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness”

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Henry David Thoreau “Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.” Anonymous “Many people may listen, but few people actually hear. “ Harvey Mackay “Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really? True effectiveness requires balance. “ Stephen Covey “May you live all the days of your life.” Jonathan Swift “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.” Franklin D. Roosevelt “Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.” Thomas Carlyle “Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.” Charles Caleb Colton “Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. “ Winston Churchill “Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.” Anonymous “Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.” Ovid “Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Horace “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.” Al Franken “Most ball games are lost, not won.” Casey Stengel “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.” Dale Carnegie “Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.” Barbara Sher “Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one--by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.” Art Fry “Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.” Christy Borgeld “Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. “ William Bridges “My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.” Hebrew Proverb “My friends are my estate.” Emily Dickinson “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” Abraham Lincoln Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“My life is my message.” Mahatma Ghandi “My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.” Molly McDonald “My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” The Dalai Lama “Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.” Henry David Thoreau “Nature does nothing uselessly.” Aristotle “Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” Anonymous “Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” Plato “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead “Never give an order that can't be obeyed.” General Douglas MacAuthur “Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. “ Winston Churchill “Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.” Christy Borgeld

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“Never live in the past but always learn from it.” Anonymous “Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.” William Makepeace Thackeray, British Writer “Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.” Alan Watts “Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.” English Proverb “Never say die.” Proverb “Never say more than is necessary.” Richard Brinsley Sheridan “Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” George Patton “Never, never, never give up.” Winston Churchill “No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.” Aesop, Greek fabulist “No fate is worse than a life without a love.” Mexican Proverb “No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.” Philip Armour “No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “No involvement, no commitment. “ Stephen Covey Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” William Shakespeare “No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.” Martin Buber “No man can stand on top because he is put there.” H. H. Vreeland “No man is free who is not master of himself.” Epictetus “No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.” Abraham Lincoln “No man is happy who does not think himself so.” Publilius Syrus “No man is wise enough by himself.” Plautus “No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.” Ronald Reagan, 40th U.S. president “No one became poor by giving alms.” French Proverb “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt “No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem. “ Robert Half “No one is so poor as an ignorant person.” Hebrew Proverb

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“No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.” Isaac Asimov “Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place. And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns and no man could head me. And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and hear the lash as well. And ain’t I a woman> I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mothers’ grief, none but Jesus heard me. And ain’t I a woman?” Sojourner Truth “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” Edmund Burke “None are homely who smile. “ Robert Half “Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.” Ashleigh Brilliant “Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” Erich Fromm “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” Mary Shelley “Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.” Jane Addams “Nothing endures but change.” Heraclitus “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” John Heywood, sixteenth-century English poet “Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.” Mingjiao, Tanquin Annals “Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change. “ Stephen Covey “Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum “Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” St. Francis De Sales “Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.” Marianne Williamson, Author/Lecturer “Nothing succeeds like success.” Proverb “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.” Anonymous “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” Samuel Johnson “Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.” Bill Blackman “Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.” Admiral Collingwood “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! “ Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking Glass

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“Obstacles are great incentives.” Jules Michelet “Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.” Anonymous “Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. “ Margaret Thatcher “Old love does not rust.” Estonian Proverb “One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble? Who was to blame?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it? What can I salvage here?' “ Abraham Maslow “One cannot think crooked and walk straight.” Anonymous “One does evil enough when one does nothing good.” German Proverb “One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.” Wayne Gretzky “One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” Maya Angelou “One joy scatters a hundred griefs.” Chinese Proverb “One lie ruins a thousand truths.” Ghanaian Proverb “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.” No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

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“One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.” Chinese Proverb “One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.” Harvey Mackay “One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.” Dick Gregory “One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you--suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too." “ Margaret Thatcher “One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! “ Winston Churchill “One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.” Calvin Coolidge “One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.” Napoleon Bonaparte “One sure-fire way to stay creative: force yourself to learn something new. “ Harvey Mackay “One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.” Russian Proverb “One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg “Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.” Anonymous

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“Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.” Carlo Brumat “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” Carol Burnett “Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.” Martin Buber “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus “Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.” Confucius “Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes... but that would be a mistake.” Anonymous “Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.” Chinese Proverb “Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.” Ann Landers “Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.” Anonymous “Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.” Nicholas Murray Butler “Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. “ Harvey Mackay “Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character... “ Stephen Covey Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most...We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” Confucius “Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow. “ Winston Churchill “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at...” Henry David Thoreau “Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.” Walter Anderson “Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; -happiness; but few are going by the same road.” Charles Caleb Colton “Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.” Seneca “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” John Quincy Adams “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Chinese Proverb “Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.” Jean Sibelius “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.” Albert Einstein “People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be. “ Harvey Mackay “People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. “ Stephen Covey “People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” Anonymous “People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.” Milan Kundera “People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.” George Allen “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” Dale Carnegie “People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society. “ Stephen Covey “People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. “ Robert Half “People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail. “ Bob Klas Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.” George Matthew Allen “Pep without purpose is piffle.” Anonymous “Perfect love cannot be without equality.” Scottish Proverb “Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite. “ Robert Half “Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.” Stephen Covey “Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.” Michael Johnson “Plan your progress carefully; hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month.” Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. “Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens. “ Robert Half “Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true. “ Margaret Thatcher “Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.” Winston Churchill “Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. “ Stephen Covey “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Procrastination is the thief of time.” Chinese Proverb “Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow “ Ralph Waldo Emerson “Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.” Korean Proverb “Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.” Stephen Covey “Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.” Anonymous “Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.” David McCullough “Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.” Tacitus “Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.” Karl Jaspers “Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape. “ William Bridges “Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors: competence (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity (your identity, your character, your attitude).” Peter Koestenbaum “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God,

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which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4: 4-7 “Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.” Noah Porter “Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.” Walter Winchell “Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says "Go!" -- a leader says "Let's go!" “ E.M. Kelly “Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.” Anonymous “Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” Brian Tracy “Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.” Jose Incenerios “Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way. “ Harvey Mackay “Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.” Anonymous “Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth.” Kahlil Gibran “Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Helen Keller “Security is a kind of death.” Tennessee Williams, Esquire, September, 1971 “See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa “Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.” Anonymous “Seek first to understand, then to be understood. “ Stephen Covey “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” Thornton Wilder “Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.” Ron Wild “Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.” Anonymous “Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.” Marian Wright Edelman “Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.” Bill Moyers “Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant “Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” Eleanor Roosevelt “Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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George Herbert “Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” Demosthenes “Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.” Anonymous “So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson “Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened?” Anonymous “Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not? “ George Bernard Shaw “Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.” Anonymous “Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’” Charles M. Shultz “Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.” Geri Weitzman “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh “Sooner or later the truth comes to light.” Dutch Proverb “Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” Charles Reade “Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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George F. Will “Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. “ Margaret Thatcher “Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.” Anonymous “Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” Frank Lloyd Wright “Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.” Horace “Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.” Emily Dickinson “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. “ Winston Churchill “Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose. “ Margaret Thatcher “Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. “ Winston Churchill “Success is the proper utilization of failure.” Anonymous “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” Colin Powell “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Henry David Thoreau “Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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William Shakespeare “Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.” William Shakespeare [Coriolanus] “Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more. “ Stephen Covey “Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.” Michael Polanyi “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” George S. Patton “Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.” Napoleon Bonaparte “Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else. “ Robert Half “Talkers are no good doers.” William Shakespeare “Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I understand.” Anonymous “Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.” Assyrian Proverb “That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.” By Michael Johnson

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“That which a man willingly shares, he keeps.” That which he selfishly keeps, he loses. “That which does not kill you makes you stronger.” Neitzsche “The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves. “ Stephen Covey “The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter.” Lee Iacocca “The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.” Henry Ward Beecher “The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.” John Dewey “The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.” Napoleon Bonaparte “The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.” Bernard M. Baruch “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease” Voltaire “The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.” Joseph Ray “The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Anonymous “The beginning is the half of every action.” Greek Proverb “The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.” Pierre Abelard “The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller “The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.” J. Richard Clarke “The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.” Zen Proverb “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.” Anne Frank “The best way out is always through.” Robert Frost “The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.” Ghandi “The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.” Anonymous “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.” Richard Bach “The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering: Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Ivan Scheier “The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.” Arnold Bennett “The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.” Traditional Proverb “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.” Anonymous “The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.” Don Marquis “The crocodile is only strong in the water.” Angolan Proverb “The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.” Anonymous “The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.” Soren Kierkegaard “The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. “ Winston Churchill “The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.” Galatians 5:14 (NIV) “The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.” Elmer Davis “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” James Oppenheim “The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Christy Borgeld “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader “The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” Cicero “The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.” Danish Proverb “The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.” Ovid “The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” Allan K. Chalmers “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.” Thomas J. Watson “The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.” Michel de Montaigne “The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.” Publius Syrus “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.” Benjamin Disraeli “The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.” Edgar Watson Howe “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” Elbert Hubbard

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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The heart is wiser than the intellect.” J.G. Holland “The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” Thomas S. Monson “The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The history of the world is but the biography of great men.” Thomas Carlyle “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler “The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.” William J.H. Boetcker “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step “ Lao Tse “The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment... Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.” Martin Buber “The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.” Warren G. Bennis

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“The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.” Warren G. Bennis “The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.” Blaise Pascal “The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth. “ Robert Half “The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” Thomas Carlyle “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Steven Covey “The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.” Confucius “The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis." “ Winston Churchill “The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.” Plutarch “The measure of a man is what he does with power.” Greek Proverb “The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” William Arthur Ward “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Carl Jung “The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Anonymous “The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have.” Leonard Nimoy, American actor, director and writer “The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.” Abbé D'Allanival “The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.” C.S. Lewis “The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.” Harriet Rubin “The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.” David O. McKay “The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.” Brian Koval “The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.” Muhammad Yunus “The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.” Anonymous “The only gift is a portion of thyself.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. “ Winston Churchill “The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Anonymous “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke “The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.” W. Beran Wolfe “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” Arthur C. Clarke “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.” Eleanor Holmes Norton “The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time. “ William Bridges “The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” King Solomon “The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” John Stuart Mill “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” Pearl S. Buck “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” John Maxwell

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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill “The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.” Cornelius Nepos “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” John Muir “The price of greatness is responsibility. “ Winston Churchill “The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” Jean Piaget, Swiss cognitive psychologist “The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. “ Winston Churchill “The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.” Leo Rosten, American teacher and humorist “The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.” Vince Lombardi “The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.” Allard Lowenstein, twentieth-century American diplomat “The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger (praise) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.” Dale Carnegie “The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.” Henry W. Longfellow “The ready back gets all the loads.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Latvian proverbs “The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.” John Milton, seventeenth-century English poet “The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way.” Henry Miller “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.” George Bernard Shaw “The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.” Traditional Proverb “The search for someone to blame is always successful. “ Robert Half “The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” Buddha “The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” Anonymous “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” Richard Cech “The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.” Kahlil Gibran “The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.” Anonymous “The stakes...are too high for government to be a spectator sport.” Barbara Jordan “The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.” Anonymous

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“The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.” Saudi Arabian Proverb “The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.” Danish Proverb “The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage--to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature--is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.” Gardner Murphy “The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.” Unknown “The successful man is the average man, focused.” Anonymous “The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.” Hubert Humphrey, U.S. vice president, senator “The time to make friends is before you need them.” Traditional Proverb “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.” John F. Kennedy “The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.” Anonymous “The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.” Madame De Maintenon “The truth is more important than the facts.” Frank Lloyd Wright “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.” Helen Keller “The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss.' If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.” Joseph Campbell “The way we see the problem is the problem. “ Stephen Covey “The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.” W. R. Inge “The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.” Levell Edwards “The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.” Blood of the Martyr “The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” George Santayana “The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.” Rollo May “The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.” Johnette Napolitano “There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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William B. Given, Jr. “There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.” Prentice “There are millions of children today who don’t attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.” Azim Premji “There are no gains without pains.” Adlai Stevenson “There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.” Emmanuel “There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.” Robert Fripp “There are no perfect human beings! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.” Abraham Maslow “There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.” Kahlil Gibran “There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.” William George Jordan “There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.” Perle Thompson “There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.” Logan Pearsall Smith

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“There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.” Phyllis Battome “There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.” David Mahoney “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right....” Martin Luther “There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.” Alexandre Ledru-Rollin “There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.” G. K. Chesterton “There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.” Anonymous “There is more to life than increasing its speed.” Mahatma Ghandi “There is no beauty but the beauty of action.” Proverb “There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.” Anonymous “There is no education like adversity.” Benjamin Disraeli “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” John Andrew Holmes Jr., American writer and minister “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” Henry Ford

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“There is no luck except where there is discipline.” Irish Proverb “There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.” Anonymous “There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.” David Starr Jordan “There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.” Anonymous “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” William Shakespeare “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” Nelson Mandela “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. “ Winston Churchill “There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.” David Burns, Intimate Connections “There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.” Epictetus “There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery...not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational...not for science but for wizardry disguised as science..not for rationally founded influence but for magic.” Karl Jaspers “There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. “ Robert Half “There is time for everything.” Thomas A. Edison

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“There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness” John Buchan “There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.” Anonymous “There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do. “ Robert Half “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol “They can because they think they can.” Virgil “They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.” Pietro Aretino “They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.” Latin Proverb “Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.” John Wooden “This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. “ General Omar Bradley “This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. “ Winston Churchill “This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.” Chuck Sigars “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Edgar Allan Poe

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“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC “Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back. “ Harvey Mackay “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.” Laertius Diogenes “Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.” Charles Caleb Colton “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” Anatole France “To ask the hard question is simple.” W.H. Auden “To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.” James Thomas “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. “ Albert Camus “To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.” Warren G. Bennis “To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water”

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Friedrich Nietzsche “To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.” Edward Bulwer Lytton “To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.” Gerry Spence “To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any man’s power nor an easy matter… “ Aristotle “To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.” Theodore H. White “To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable “ Helen Keller “To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.” Hugh Prather “To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard “To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” David Viscott “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” William M. Thackeray “To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.” Oliver Wendell Holmes “To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Christy Borgeld “To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.” Tony Dorsett “To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” Kahlil Gibran “To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.” Chinese Proverb “To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. “ Margaret Thatcher “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” Pierre Corneille “To win without risk is to triumph without glory.” Corneille “Tolerance can lead to learning something.” Jakob Dylan “Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” Helen Keller “Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.” Anonymous “Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” Leo Buscaglia Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser “True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice “ St. Francis of Assisi “Truth fears no questions.” Unknown “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein “Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.” Thomas Fuller “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain “Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.” Henry Drummond “Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.” Ray Lyman Wilbur “Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.” David Thomas “Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective. “ Stephen Covey

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“Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.” Matthew Arnold “Victory belongs to the most persevering.” Napoleon Bonaparte “Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe; He still remember'd that he once was young.” Dr. John Armstrong “Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” Japanese Proverb “Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.” Ashley E. Hyder “Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.” Sherry Anderson “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” Harrison Ford “We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.” Ovid “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.” Pogo “We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.” Sister Busche “We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations. “ Stephen Covey Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.” Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize winner “We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.” Anne Sophie Swetchine “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” Winston Churchill “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle “We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.” Gerald J. Simmons “We get to make a living; we give to make a life.” Winston Churchill “We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.” Madeleine Albright “We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.” John W. Turk “We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious: a moment can be everything.” Karl Jaspers “We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.” Rabindranath Tagore

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“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. “ Winston Churchill “We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.” Anonymous “We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.” Cicero “We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.” Anonymous “We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. “ Winston Churchill “We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. “ Winston Churchill “We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. “ Winston Churchill “We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.” Brigham Young “We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions. “ Stephen Covey “We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” Albert Einstein “We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.” Anonymous “Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.” Afghan Proverb “Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Chinese Proverb “Well done is better than well said.” Benjamin Franklin “What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed”

“What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.” Nash “What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.” Baiyun “What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.” Dwight D. Eisenhower “What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.” Louis L. Mann “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Aristotle “What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.” Proverb “What is strength without a double share of wisdom? “ John Milton, seventeenth-century English poet “What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone. “ Winston Churchill “What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.” Voltaire

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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” Anonymous “What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.” Isaac Bashevis Singer “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” John Lubbock “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” Jean Jacques Rousseau “What you cannot enforce / Do not command.” Sophocles “Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. “ Stephen Covey “When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” L. A. Rouchefolicauld “When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.” Napoleon Bonaparte “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? “ Sydney J. Harris “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. “ Winston Churchill “When I want to read a novel, I write one.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Benjamin Disraeli “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.” Mark Twain “When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.” Anonymous “When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.” Helen Keller “When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell “When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller “When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.” William Shakespeare (Macbeth) “When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.” Steve Walton, Hearts & Minds volunteer and professional programmer “When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.” Bill Blackman “When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?” Henry David Thoreau “When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past? “ Robert Half

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“When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.” Norman Vincent Peale “When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” Franklin D. Roosevelt “When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.” Anonymous “Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.” Anonymous “Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships. “ Stephen Covey “Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?” Cicero “Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.” English proverb “Where there is love there is no darkness.” Burundi Proverb “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” King Solomon “Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.” African Proverb “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius

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“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.” Seneca “Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.” Nelson A. Rockefeller “Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.” Henry Ford “While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.” Hasidic Proverb “Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?” I Peter “Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.” Indian Proverb “Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?” Marian Wright Edelman “Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes? “ Robert Half “Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.” Vince Lombardi “Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.” Anonymous “Wisdom is more precious than rubies.” Biblical Proverb, Proverbs 3:15 “Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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Albert Einstein “Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.” Ghanaian Proverb “Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom.” Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you. “Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.” Plato “With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.” Keshavan Nair “Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.” Thomas J. Watson “Without a general an army is lost.” Greek proverb “Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning. “ Winston Churchill “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” Johann Gottfried Von Herder “Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.” The Dalai Lama “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” Voltaire

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“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.” Indian Proverb “You are never a loser until you quit trying.” Mike Ditka “You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” Richard Bach “You are the handicap you must face.” You are the one who must choose your place. “You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.” Michael Johnson “You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.” Chinese Proverb “You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.” Anonymous “You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.” J.S. Knox “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” Author Unknown “You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.” Heraclitus “You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.” Henry Ford “You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.” Shira Tehrani

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“You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.” Anonymous “You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.” Dwight D. Eisenhower “You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.” Susan Podziba “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. “ Winston Churchill “You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.” Anonymous “You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.” Anonymous “You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.' “ Stephen Covey “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” Friedrich Nietzsche “You haven't failed until you quit trying.” Anonymous “You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.” Michael Johnson “You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.” Anonymous Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.” Paul H. Dunn “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win. “ Margaret Thatcher “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi “You must motivate yourself every day.” Matthew Stasior “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” Mohandas K. Gandhi “You must tolerate that which you cannot change.” Spanish Proverb “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller “You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.” Michael Johnson “You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.” Professor Harold Hill (The Music Man) “You really can change the world if you care enough.” Marion Wright Edelman “You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.” Gorden B. Hinkley “You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.” Irish Proverb Copyright 2009 Aspen Light Publishing Made available at www.bigfiveforlife.com

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“Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be.” David Bly “Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.” Anonymous “Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.” Kahlil Gibran “Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.” Kim Rohn “Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.” Miguel de Unamuno “Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.” Anonymous “Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.” David O. McKay “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” Carl Jung “You're as old as you behave. “ Harvey Mackay “You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.” Robert F. Kennedy “You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.” Anonymous

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