I heard a bird sing
in the dark of December.
A magical thing
and sweet to remember.

“We are nearer to Spring
than we were in September.”

~ Oliver Herford

Success does not result from spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

~ Fred Shero

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. 

~ Ferdinand Foch

There is no conflict between ‘profit and ‘social responsibility.’ To earn enough to cover the genuine costs which only the so-called ‘profit’ can cover, is economic and social responsibility — indeed, it is the specific social and economic responsibility of business. It is not the business that earns a profit adequate to its genuine costs of capital, to the risks of tomorrow and to the needs of tomorrow’s worker and pensioner that ‘rips off’ society. It is the business that fails to do so.

~ Peter Drucker

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

~ Steve Jobs

Patience with others is Love. Patience with self is Hope. Patience with God is Faith.

~ Adel Bestavros

Self Reliance.
I will gladly listen to the advice of older and wiser people; I will reverence the wishes of those who love and care for me; but I will learn to think for myself. I will not be afraid of being laughed at. I will not be afraid of doing right when the crowd does wrong.

~ William J. Hutchins, The National Institution of Moral Instructions, 1913

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

~ Plato

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expediency asks the question, “Is it politic?” And Vanity comes along and asks the question, “Is it popular?” But Conscience asks the question “Is it right?” And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

~ Henry Ford

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire…give us the tools and we will finish the job. 

~ Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going. 

~ Winston Churchill

They can because they think they can. 

~ Virgil

The best way out is always through. 

~ Robert Frost

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however. 

~ Richard Bach

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you’re alive, it isn’t. 

~ Richard Bach

Never imitate. Insist on yourself. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

~ Phillips Brooks