This is a compilation of some of our favorite quotes…feel free to copy and pass on.   

"Success is much less important than health.  You can be the richest man in the world, and the most successful man alive, but if you lose your health you will be a very unhappy man."  
Lord Beaverbrook, media magnate
 

“When a man dies, if he can pass enthusiasm along to his children, he has left them an estate of incalculable value”     Thomas Edison, inventor

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air.  You name them—work, family, health, friends and spirit—and you’re keeping all of these in the air.  You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball.  If you drop it, it will bounce back.  But the other four balls—family, health, friends and spirit are made of glass.  If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered.  They will never be the same.  You must understand that and strive for balance in you life.”   Brian Dyson

“Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.”  

James Penny, retailer

“Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart. Live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”   – Dale Carnegie, writer

“Inside the ring or out, ain’t anything wrong with going down.  It’s staying down that’s wrong”    Muhammad Ali, boxing champion

“The secret of health for both body and mind is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles…but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

Buddha, philosopher

“Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold”

Ludwig van Beethoven, composer

“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.  The special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in the four C’s.  They are curiosity, confidence, courage and constancy.  The greatest of all is confidence.  When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”  Walt Disney

“Success is a lousy teacher.  It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”   Bill Gates, Microsoft founder

“Slow down and enjoy life.  It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”  

Eddie Cantor

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bow lines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover.”    Mark Twain

“So what do we do?  Anything.  Something.  So long as we just don’t sit there.  If we screw up, start over.  Try something else.  If we wait until we’ve satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.”    Lee Iacocca

“Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals.  I never had a crisis that didn’t make me stronger.”   Lou Holtz, football coach

“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”   

Phyllis Theroux, columnist

“When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future.  When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.”   Unknown

“There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance; miss that moment and you start to decline.”  
Andy Grove, Intel Chairman

“Success is living up to your potential.  That’s all.  Wake up with a smile and go after life…Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.” 
Joe Kapp

“To me success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.  In fact, success represents 1% of your work that results from the 99% that is called failure.”

Soichiro Honda, Founder, Honda Corporation

“The indispensable first step to getting what you want out of life is this; decide what you want!”   Ben Stein

“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”  Robert Louis Stevenson 

“Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.”    – Hank Aaron, baseball player

“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming”

John Wooden, retired college basketball coach

“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

Albert Einstein

“Many other people think that if they were in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy.  Well, that is doubtful.  So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.”   Dale Carnegie, author

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work”Thomas Edison

“If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will you ever have the time to do it over?” John Wooden, basketball coach

"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier."    – Mother Teresa of Calcutta, humanitarian

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

–         Albert Einstein, physicist

"The moment you let avoiding failure become your motivator, you’re down the path of inactivity."       Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola CEO

"I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work."     – Lee Iacocca, executive

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."      Hank Aaron, baseball player

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”   – Steve Jobs, Apple Computer co-founder and chief executive

“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.”

-Roy Disney, executive

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”   – Aldous Huxley, writer

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”   – Winston Churchill, British statesman

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”     – Henry David Thoreau, writer

“There is hardly anything in the world that some man can’t make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man’s lawful prey.”     – John Ruskin, art and architecture critic

“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”  – Louis L’Amour, author

“Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.”   – Thomas J. Watson, Jr., entrepreneur