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- Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- As a twig is bent the tree inclines.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)
- Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
- George Sheehan
- The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
- Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
- It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
- Saint Francis Of Assisi (1181 - 1226)
- There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
- The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
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