Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson







Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Edison






Anytime the going seems easy, better check and see if you are going downhill.
-Author Unknown







Discontent is the penalty we pay for being ungrateful for

what we have.






"Honey, I can upstage you with out even being on the stage."
-Tellulah Bankhead






Watch you thoughts; they become words
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; they become destiny.





Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up
depends on what you are made of.






I am a great believer in luck, and I find the
harder I work, the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock






Temper is what gets most of us into trouble.
Pride is what keeps us there.




We are all in the gutter,
but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain






Success is a matter of luck, ...ask any failure.
-Earl Wilson






The good news is that we're still present to hear the bad news.







Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close
they were to success when they gave up.
-Thomas Edison






Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein






If you build it, they will come.
From the movie, Field of Dreams






There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur






There are two days during the year you shouldn't worry about:
Yesterday and Tomorrow.






Do the thing you're afraid to do and the
death of fear is certain.
-Emerson





Dreams are goals with deadlines





Robert Mitchum to finance, Dorothy
:"Babe if you stick with me you'll be farting through silk."






Dwight Eisenhower use to demonstrate the art of leadership with a
simple piece of string. He'd put it on the table and say,
"Pull it, and it will follow you anywhere you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all."







When choosing between two evils,
I always take the one I haven't tried before.
- Mae West






Life is too short to drink bad wine.






* Love, like everything else in life is a risk.






Marshall Field once said:
"Give the Lady what she wants."






* Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!






* Late to Bed, Early to Rise; Work like Hell,
and You'll be Wise.
Hyman G. Rickover, Father of the U.S. Nuclear Navy






No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt






* "Who you are speaks so loudly,
I can't hear what you're saying."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson




If you want to keep on getting what you're getting,
Keep on doing what you're doing.
Submitted by Brigitte








* "I'm not afraid to die,
I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-Woody Allen