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GOALS
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true
and important principle of life
that the most likely way to reach a goal
is to be aiming not at that goal itself
but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
   -  Arnold Toynbee

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CURIOSITY
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe
when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity,
of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend
a little of this mystery every day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
   -  Albert Einstein

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HONOR
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
   -  Rod Steiger

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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
   -  Robert Louis Stevenson

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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
    -  Plato

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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
    -  Samuel Johnson

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. 
    -  Helen Keller

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Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.
    - Benjamin Franklin

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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. 
    - Henry Ward Beecher

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
    - Anita DeFrantz

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Doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place
for the next moment.
    - Oprah Winfrey

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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
    - Benjamin Franklin

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The price of greatness is responsibility.
    - Winston Churchill

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Happiness is giving back a little more than you received.  Peace is accepting what has been offered with thanks.
    - Ralph Arbitelle

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It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
     - Roy Disney

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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
     - Arnold Bennett

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The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance.
     - Bruno Bettelheim

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None of the secrets of success will work unless you do
.      - Unknown

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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
     - Paul Boese

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Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint on it that you can.
     - Danny Kaye

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A life isn’t significant except for its impact on other lives.
     - Jackie Robinson

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other people  the convictions and the will to carry on.
     - Walter Lippmann

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You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
    - John Bunyan

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There is one who scatters, yet increases more;  And there is one who withholds more than is right,  But it leads to poverty.  The generous soul will be made rich,
And he who waters will also be watered himself.
     - Proverbs 11:24,25

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A leader is one who see more than others see,  who sees farther than others see,
And who sees before others see.
    - Leroy Eims

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You shouldn’t gloat about anything you’ve done; You ought to keep going and try to find something better to do.
     - David Packard

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Not everything that is faced can be changed.  But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
     - James Baldwin

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He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
     - Samuel Johnson

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There is a price to pray to grow. Commitment is the price.
     - Ed Cole

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It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
     - Tom Brokaw

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Many persons  have the wrong idea of what constitutes happiness.  It is not attained through self-gratification  but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
     - Helen Keller

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The man who keeps busy helping the man  below him won’t have time to envy the man above him.
     - Henrietta Mears