A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem - he is challenged by it.