"If you start to think the problem is 'out there', stop yourself.  
That thought is the problem."
~  Stephen Covey


"Bless a thing and it will bless you.
Curse it and it will curse you.
If you bless a situation, 
it has no power to hurt you."

Emmet Fox

"Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you'll find one at the end of your arm
...
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands.
One for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
                                                                                             --  Audrey Hepburn

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[Quotation about public speaking] The success of your presentation depends on more than your knowledge

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No people were ever honored for what they received.  Honor has been the reward for what they gave.
Calvin Coolidge

Liberty:
One of imagination's
most precious possessions.

                                                       ---Ambrose Bierce

It's not until you have the courage to step off
the ledge that you'll realize
you've had wings all along,.
                                                              --- Gail Lynne Godwin

"Nothing is worth more than this day.
You cannot relive yesterday.
Tomorrow is still beyond your reach."
--  Johann Wolfgang VanGoethe

"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary"

Ray Knight