"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
~ John Wooden ~

"There are no short cuts to any place worth going."

-- Beverly Sills

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing… the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is to do nothing."
by Eleanor Roosevelt

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." - Kahlil Gibran -

"Don’t be cool.Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort."

~ from Bruce Mau Design's "Incomplete Manifesto"

"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more
to patient attention than to any other talent."

-- Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"Men are respectable only as they respect."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

"I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey to foolish rules made especially to humiliate me."

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

~Albert Einstein

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still small voice within me."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

~Albert Einstein

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the word is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

~ Calvin Coolidge

"The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice."

~ Albert Einstein

"...the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last."

-- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)