Malcolm X

There is nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Peace Pilgim

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
Peace Pilgrim

Simon Wiesenthal

Violence is like a weed - it does not die even in the greatest drought.

Wavy Gravy

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.

You serve that which you value.

(Don't confuse being a warrior with violence.) When you cease to act like a warrior, you cease to be a warrior.

Steven Pressfield (The Tides of War)

Don't confound prudence with valor. If I fight up front it's because I find it safer, the dead line up before no paymaster.

I use money but I never allow money to use me.

In defeat one learns who are friends to him, and by whom he is accounted friend.

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little bit of "extra" you provide.

Doris Leasing

Think wrongly if you must, but in all cases think for yourself.

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all of the worlds armies, an idea whose time has come.

Gen. George S. Patton

Accept challenges so that you may feel the exhiliration of victory.

Howard W. Newton

People will forget how fast you did a job, but they will remember how well you did it.

Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Horace

Adversity revels genius, prosperity conceals it.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our main desire in life is someone who will make us do what we can.

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what needs to be done and self restraint enough to allow them to do it.

Demosthenes

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

John Norley

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Jack London

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."

Vince Lombardi

The quality of a persons life is in direct proportion to their committment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Albert Einstein

I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough.

Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Jules Renard

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend. Happy B-Day, Dad.

Hal Borland

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Happy B-Day, Mike N.

Benjamin Franklin

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better person. Happy New Year.