To live a happy life ~ Albert Einstein

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
-- Albert Einstein

Write Something Worth Reading ~ Benjamin Franklin

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

-- Benjamin Franklin, Inventor

Time is more valuable than money ~ Jim Rohn

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

-- Jim Rohn, Motivational Speaker

"Focus your messages on the results you expect ~ Marty Brounstein, communications trainer

"Focus your messages on the results you expect, not on the methods for doing the job."
-- Marty Brounstein, communications trainer

The mind ~ John Milton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell and a hell of a heav'n."
-- John Milton, poet

Do the best you could in current condition ~ Edgar Howe

"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better."
-- Edgar Howe

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Opportunity

"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."
-- H. Jackson Brown, Author

Strength, courage & confidence ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, Former First Lady

Create a plan and put it into action ~ Napoleon Hill

"Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not, to put this plan into action."
-- Napoleon Hill, Motivational Writer

The biggest tragedy in America ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The biggest tragedy in America is not the great waste of natural resources - though this is tragic; the biggest tragedy is the waste of human resources because the average person goes to his grave with his music still in him."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes