"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain
"Treat the Earth well. It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children."
-Kenyan proverb
"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
-William Bridges
"Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak."
-Epictetus
"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
-Will Rogers
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
-John Stuart Mill
"The miracle is not that we do work, but that we are happy to do it."
-Mother Teresa
"In simplest terms, a leader is one who knows where he wants to go, and gets up, and goes."
-John Erksine
"In our lives, we have two or three opportunities to be a hero, but almost every day, we have the opportunity to not be a coward."
-Spanish proverb
"There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
-Edith Wharton
" If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
-Ivan Turgenev
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can."
-John Wesley