Untruth

 "Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence. -Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "

Progress

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. ~ Mark Twain

Success

"A successful life is a string of successful days." John Cummuta

Ideas

What we behold before our eyes is what we've been holding in our minds. ~Rick Beneteau

Success

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Unknown

Optimism

 There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.  ~C.S. Lewis

Observation

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. ~ Andrew Carnegie

Motivation

Let him who would move the world, first move himself. ~Socrates

Courage

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

Idleness

"It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. -Jerome K. Jerome, humorist and playwright (1859-1927)"

Independence

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

Shadows

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. -Lin Yutang, writer and translator (1895-1976)

Growth

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. -Moliere, actor and playwright (1622-1673)

Integrity

One cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Tolerance

The highest result of education is tolerance. -Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880-1968)

Skepticism

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

Communication

What we have overlooked, in our frenzy to invent more dazzling ways and means of communication, is to communicate. ~ Henry Miller

Truth

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Persistence

You've got only three choices in life:
Give up;
Give in; or
Give it all you've got!
~ Unknown

Thoughts & Actions

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. -William Hazlitt, essayist (1778-1830)

Music

The music that can deepest reach,
And cure all ill, is cordial speech.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

I wish you enough

A heartfelt wish - I wish you enough 

Beginings

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ~Nido Qubein