Some of my favorite quotes

• "Light tomorrow with today." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." - Louis Brandeis
• "Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person." - Buckminster Fuller
• "The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say "no" - they may not be smart enough to say "yes"." - Keith Olbermann


• "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little." -- Edmund Burke
• "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
• "Do what you can with what you have, where you are." Teddy Roosevelt
• "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own." - Scoop Nisker
• "Do not ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." - Howard Thurman
• "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
• "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader." -John Quincy Adams
• "Lead with your best self." - Dan Mulhern
• "Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Norman Schwarzkopf
• "Let your life be a friction against the machine." - Henry David Thoreau
• "Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth will find reserves of strength that will endure as life lasts." - Rachel Carson
• "One kind word can warm three winter months." -Japanese Proverb
• "We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom." - Dwight Eisenhower
• "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
• "Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." - Thomas Jefferson
• "...public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people...with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration..." - Margaret Chase Smith
• "Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life." - Walt Disney