• Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. A.E.
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect. M.T
• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. M.T
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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. M.T.
• Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. H.D.T
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. R.W.E
• What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say R-W.E
• The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. R.W.E
• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else W.C.
• Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking William B. Sprague
• Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right Henry Ford
• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Isaac B. Singer

• Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

Unknown

• A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Hugh Downs

• Great minds discuss ideas

Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people Eleanor Roosevelt

• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

• The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.

Margo Kaufman

• I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened by old ones.

John Cage

• “To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”

Elbert Hubbard

• “When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”

Sydney Harris

• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

Chinese Proverb

• "Vekk meg hvis det skjer noe kjekt"! tikken manus

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

• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

George Washington

An optimist is the human personification of spring. ~Susan J. Bissonette

Optimism is the foundation of courage. ~Nicholas Murray Butler

• Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont
• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. ~Ambrose Bierce
• She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning
• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity. ~Jean Paul Richter
• There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
• Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson