"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

Beverly Sills 

 

“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what a feminist is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."

Rebecca West, 1913

 

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.”

 George Bernard Shaw

 

“If a man for whatever reason has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself." Jacques-Yves Cousteau

 

“Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who implement them are priceless.” Mary Kay Ash

 

"They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel!"

Carl W. Buechner

 

"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging!"  Will Rogers

 

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"Pay any price to stay in the presence of extraordinary people." Mike Murdoch

 

"Compound interest is the eighth natural wonder of the world and the most powerful thing I have ever encountered.” Albert Einstein

 

"To know and not to do, is really not to know."  Dr. Stephen Covey

 

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.”  Mother Teresa

 

"Being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t!”
Margaret Thatcher

 

"Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love."
Mother Teresa

 

"We must become the change we seek in the world."  Gandhi

 

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart." Helen Keller

 

"We are all trying to make a big difference,not realizing the small difference we can make for each other every day" -Daphne Rose Kingma

 

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song" - Maya Angelou

 

..."I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." Helen Keller

 

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer

 

"Leave earlier and you won't need to speed to be on time..."   Anonymous

 

“In times of profound change the learners shall inherit the earth for the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to handle a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoeffer

 

“All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”   Irish playwright Sean O’Casey