People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they don't find them, make them

[George Bernhard Shaw]

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

[Dwight Morrow]

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

[Confucius] 

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which anyone can get into.

[J. Ogden Armour]

Leadership is action, not position.

[Donald H. McGannon] 

A  believer is a bird in a cage, a free-thinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wings.

[Robert G. Ingersoll]

Trickery and treachery are the practices of fools that have not wits enough to be honest.

[Benjamin Franklin]

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

(George Bernard Shaw )