Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win – essential to success.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
-Vincent Van Gogh

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
-Author Unknown

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
-Peter T. Mcintyre

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
-Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969

- Mark Twain

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole life – time, if not asked to lend money.

- Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

- Mark Twain

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

- Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

- Mark Twain
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

- Mark Twain

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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Oprah Winfrey
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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-Catherine Pulsifer

Help your brother’s boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

-Proverb

A brother is a friend God gave you; a friend is a brother your heart chose for you.

-Proverb

To the outside world we all grow old.
But not to brothers and sisters.
We know each other as we always were. We know each other’s hearts.
We share private family jokes.
We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys.
We live outside the touch of time.

-Clara Ortega
There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother. Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

-Anna Quindlan

There’s no other love like the love for a brother. There’s no other love like the love from a brother.

- Astrid Alauda

-Spanish Proverb

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

-George Santayana, The Life of Reason

We cannot destroy kindred:  our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

-Marquise de Sévigné

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

-Anthony Brandt

Families are like fudge – mostly sweet with a few nuts.

-Author Unknown

-Proverb

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs… since the payment is pure love.

-Mildred B. Vermont

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

-Tenneva Jordan

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

-Peter De Vries

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

-Rajneesh

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

-Oprah Winfrey

-Donald H. McGannon

 
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

-Gene Mauch

 
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

-Elaine Agather

 
You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

-Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

 
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

-Albert Schweitzer

 
Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

-Robert Jarvik

A leader is a dealer in hope.

-Napoleon Bonaparte, attributed

 
Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.

-Tom Peters

-E.E. Cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation.

-Milton Berle

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

-Woody Allen

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.

-Author Unknown

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

-Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

-Yiddish Proverb

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.

-Raymond Hitchcock