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On the following pages I have chosen a few quotes that I feel are true and beneficial to a healthy development of character. They are also the magic we can use to conjure up the foundations of the success that we desire. You are what you think you are and if you change your way of thinking, you change your life along with it. "He who knows much about others is learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Lao-Tsu, Tao Teh King
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt
"If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally." - Lao-Tsu, Tao Teh King
"Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums who can't and those in cemeteries." - Everett Dirksen
"Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable." - Ben Jonson
"In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key." - George Bernard Shaw
"Though Musashi may have been great, the seven samurai had more fun. Stick with a team." - Rick Tew
"The best soldier does not attack. The superior fighter succeeds without violence, the greatest conqueror wins without a struggle, and the most successful manager leads without dictation. This is called intelligent non aggressiveness, this is called mastery of men." - Lao-Tsu, Tao Teh King
"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world." - Emmet Fox
"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love." - Kahlil Gibran
"A few belts will put a smile on your face, but a black belt will keep it there." - Rick Tew
"Little things affect little minds." - Benjamin Disraeli
"There are two things to aim at life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it." - Logan Pearsall Smith
"Man is not the sum of what he has but the totality of what he does not yet have, or what he might have." - Jean Paul Sartre
"Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men." - Benjamin Disraeli
"An organized team is like a strong fist and will smash through stones, but an unorganized team is like a weak wrist, and will break only bones." - Rick Tew
"People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals. That is goals that do not inspire them." - Anthony Robbins
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it." - Henry Ford
"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking" - Thomas Edison
"The friend who understands you creates you." - Romain Rolland
"There is a fine line between bravery and stupidity." - Rick Tew
"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend." - Abraham Lincoln
"I bid him look into the lives of men as that into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself." - Terence
"One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him." - Lao-Tsu, Tao Teh King
"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov
"They can because they think they can." - Virgil
"Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees." - S. Willard Molton
"Our doubts are traitors of thought and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare
"An open hand travels faster than a closed fist, this is true with the mind" - Rick Tew
"Don't find fault, find a remedy" - Henry Ford
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment." - Lao-Tsu, Tao Teh King
"A warrior with past success, is great for what he's done; but a warrior that keeps on going, will be sure the war is won." - Rick Tew
"Our bodies are our gardens; our wills are gardeners." - William Shakespeare
"There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way." - Christopher Morley
"To succeed is - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The great end of life is not knowledge but action" - Thomas Henry Huxely
"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward" - Jim Rohn
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -William Somerset Maugham
"You can lock your money away in a safe. Would you like to be safe too?" - Rick Tew
"Things do not change; people change." - Henry David Thoreau
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor." - Edmund Spencer
"The ancestor of every action is a thought" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend." - Benjamin Disraeli
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