“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”

Walter Cronkite (1916-2009);

American broadcast journalist

“The most powerful agent of change is a change of heart.”

B.J. Marshal -

"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."

— Ludwig Wittgenstein: Austrian-British philosopher

"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business."
-- B. C. Forbes, Founder of Forbes Magazine

“If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me.”

Althea Gibson (1927-2003);

First African-American woman to be on the world tennis tour

"You can't do it unless you can imagine it."
-- George Lucas, director

"During my 87 years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think."
-- Bernard Baruch, financier

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
-- Chuck Palahniuk, Author

"If you talk to a man in a language he understands,
that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

— Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid activist and politician

"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule,
but to schedule your priorities."

— Stephen Covey: educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night
and day to make you like everybody else means to fight
 the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting."
-- E.E. Cummings, American poet  

“For it's not light that is needed, but fire; it's not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind and the earthquake in our hearts.”

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895);

American social reformer, abolitionist

“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.“

Steve Jobs (1955-2011);

Co-founder Apple Inc.

Leader

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to
compromise on anything at anytime, and you would achieve nothing."
-- Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister


If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-- John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States

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"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it."
-- Francis Chichester, adventurer

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world with a finer spirit of hope and achievement- and we impoverish ourselves if we forget the errand.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924);

28th U.S. President

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale: American motivational speaker and author

"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."

-- Oprah Winfrey, Talk Show Host