Confidence

“Confidence is preparation.
Everything else is beyond your control.”

Richard Kline

Start Now

“Don’t wait until everything is just right.
It will never be perfect.
There will always be challenges,
obstacles and less than perfect conditions.
So what. Get started now.
With each step you take,
you will grow stronger and stronger,
more and more skilled,
more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”

Mark Victor Hansen, b. 1948

Be Present

“When one is freshly informed,
has a serendipitous experience, one’s mood is changed.
That is why taking time to see, hear, be present
to images and language that arise from new experiences
have the power to change one from one way to another.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, b. 1945

Self-Restraint

“The best executive is the one who has sense enough
to pick good men to do what he wants done,
and self-restraint enough
to keep from meddling with them while they do it.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Without Effort

“About the only thing
that comes to us without effort
is old age.”

Gloria Pitzer, 1979

Freedom

“Freedom is what you do
with what’s been done to you.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

True Goal

“Intelligence plus character,
that is the goal of true education.”

MLK Jr.

Everything

“The happiest people don’t necessarily
have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything.”

Jayaram

This Side

“The grass is greener on this side.”

Time

“You will never find time for anything.
If you want time, you must make it.”

Charles Bixton

Small Stones

“The person who removes a mountain
begins by carrying away small stones.”

Anonymous

It Merely Moves

“Some people, no matter how old they get,
never lose their beauty.
It merely moves from their faces to their hearts.”

Martin Buxbaum

I Asked For It

“The most difficult thing I have ever had to do
is follow the guidance I prayed for.”

Albert Schweitzer

Glad I Did

“I try to end each day saying,
‘I am glad I did,’
rather than, ‘I wish I had.’”

Barbara J. McMorrow