"It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class." -- J. Willard Marriot

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." -- John Wooden, basketball coach

"Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push." -- Joann Thomas

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if needed. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -- Anonymous

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." -- Albert Schweitzer

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound." -- James Allen

"To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee." -- William H. Walton

"Actions are seeds of fate. Seeds grow into destiny." -- Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States

"A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction." -- Jesse Stoner Zemel

"Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice." -- Henry Ford, Founder of the Ford Motor Company

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." -- Ferdinand Foch, military strategist

"You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude." -- John Maxwell

"I think it’s important to choose your partner with your inner voice and intuition. When you find that and you connect with someone like that, why throw it away? You stick it out, it’s still a lot of work but it’s worth it." -- Tom Ford, fashion designer

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." -- Grace Hopper, American Computer Scientist

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." -- Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Author

A work well begun is half-ended.-- Plato, Philosopher

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."-- Booker T. Washington, Educator 

"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom."-- Marilyn Ferguson, Author 

"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship."  -- General Omar N. Bradley, American General 

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered." -- Michael J. Fox, Actor 

"Some of us learn from other people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people."-- Zig Ziglar, Author 

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president 

"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."-- Denis Diderot, French Philosopher and Writer