"Don't mistake activity for achievement."

Wooden, John on Achievement
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"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on Excellence
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"Duty cannot exist without faith."

Disraeli, Benjamin on Duty
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"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

Menander of Athens on Life and Living
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"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Stimson, Henry Lewis on Trust
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"I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."

Emmons, Nathaniel on Punctuality
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"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

Emmons, Nathaniel on Habit
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"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on Excess
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"Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always."

Ashton, Marvin J. on Cooperation
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"Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can."

Thomas, Lowell on Excellence
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"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go."

Duffecy, James on Death and Dying
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"Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable."

Duffecy, James on Music
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on Change
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"If at first you don't succeed, try to hide your astonishment."

Banks, Harry F. on Success
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"Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow."

Brown, Les on Determination
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"The beginning is the half of every action."

Proverb, Greek on Beginning
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"The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?"

Gatty, Margaret on Conflict
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"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on Difficulties
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Faith
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"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."

Ball, Ivern on Past
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"There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey."

Forster, William Edward on Obedience
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"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."

Harris, Sidney J. on Teachers and Teaching
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on Hope
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on Hope
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"With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

Buxton, Sir Thomas Fowell on Perseverance
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"Persevere in virtue and diligence."

Livy, Titus on Perseverance
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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on Risk
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."

Anderson, Walter on Risk
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"Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small."

Proverb, Jewish on Modesty
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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on Virtue
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