One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

-Chinese Proverb

Take charge of your life! To act intelligently and effectively, we still must have a plan. To the proverb which says "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," I would add the words "and a road map."

-Cecile M. Springer

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

-Theodore Roosevelt

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious behavior.

-Henry David Thoreau

Would you live with ease, Do what you ought and not what you please.

-Benjamin Franklin

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

-Matsuo Basho

Of all the things I have done, the most vital is coordinating the talents of those who work for us and pointing them toward a certain goal.

-Walt Disney

It is important to understand that most people are simply not sensitive. There is absence of malice but presence of callous.

-Dr. Richard Swenson

My challenge was not to do the impossible-but to learn to live with the possible.

-Sue Bender

If you feel like you're in control, you're not driving fast enough.

-Mario Andretti

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

-Wayne Gretsky

Every now and then go away and have a little relaxation. To remain constantly at work will diminish your judgment. Go some distance away, because work will be in perspective and a lack of harmony is more readily seen.

-Leonardo Da Vinci

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

-Peter F. Drucker

I chose, and my world was shaken; the choice mistaken, however, the choosing was not.

-Sondheim

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

-Oswald Avery

When a decision has to be made, make it. An imperfect plan based on limited knowledge is better than no plan at all. Don't let the best become the enemy of the good.

-General George Patton

Indecision is a decision.

People with no dreams will seek to destroy yours.

As the want gets stronger, the how gets easier.

The pain of discipline and commitment is measured in ounces. The pain of disappointment and regret is measured in tons.

The key to happiness is having dreams. The key to success is making dreams come true.

The secret of happiness lies not in doing what you like, but liking what you have to do.

If you are on a diet, don't tell anyone. Let them see the results.

Make the quality of your life VISUAL, not VERBAL.

They who want milk should not sit in the middle of a field and wait for a cow to back up to them.

-Lillian Katz

It is impossible to create vision within others if you have none yourself.

We make a decision and THEN we make it right.

Be passionate about something other than yourself.