Memory

Memory is like a long, dark street, illuminated at intervals in a light so bright that it shows up every detail. And then one plunges into the dark stretch again.
Susan Hill

Disaster

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. 

William Bridges

Courage

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use. 

Ruth Gordon

Fear

If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway

Mistakes

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

Success

For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
James Allen

You

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Fear

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Beauty

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation that any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Courage

One man with courage makes a majority. 

Andrew Jackson

Dumb

Do not be afraid to ask dumb questions. They are easier to handle than dumb mistakes.

Unknown

Risk

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking. 

Tim McMahon

Risk

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. 

Robert F Kennedy 

Explore

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.
Mark Twain

Fortune

Fortune favours the bold.
Juvenal

Future

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Risk

A ship in the harbor is safe. But that's not what ships are built for.
Anonymous

Courage

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. 

Ambrose Redmoon

Burning

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Mother Theresa

Simplify

Our life is frittered away by detail....simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau

Excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

Success

Set yourself up for success and anything is possible.
Unknown

Live

May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

Success

It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor

Skilled

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. 

Unknown

Difference

The basic difference between being asertive and beig aggresive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others. 

Sharon Anthony Bowers

Character

Hard work spotlights the character of people; some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Sam Ewing

Forgiveness

Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
Roberto Assagioli

Suffering

Suffering is the tuition one pays for a character degree.
Richard M. Rayner MD

Character

Character is simply habit long continued. 

Plutarch