"Your life is the sum total of all your choices up to this present minute." -- Brian Tracy

"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." -- John D. Rockefeller

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first." -- Mark Twain

"Pay particular attention to the pursuit of knowledge. Even in a bad message there is something to learn, though it may not be recognized at the time. Look there, for it is to be seen." -- Ivy Meadors

"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future." -- Hillary Rodham Clinton

"You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them." -- Brian Tracy

"We must become the change we want to see." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Your road in life is the one that will bring you the most satisfaction if chosen carefully and should be based on your deepest passions. You are in charge of this destiny."  -- Ivy Meadors

"Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars – they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"Make education a continuing, never-ending process." -- Nido Qubein

"Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future." -- Brian Tracy

"Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth." -- David J. Schwartz

"Control your own destiny or someone else will." -- Jack Welch

"It is never to late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." -- Patricia Neal

"Persistence is a strong will. Obstinance is a strong won't.". -- Anonymous

"Those who say that I will lose and am finished will have to run over my body to beat me." -- Said Aouita

"It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit." -- George Sheehan

"What counts in a battle is what you do once the pain sets in." -- John Short, South African Coach

"To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others." -- Buddha

"With the skill and the will, you will arrive." -- Ivy Meadors

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Achieving sustainable development is perhaps one of the most difficult and one of the most pressing goals we face. It requires on the part of all of us commitment, action, partnerships and, sometimes, sacrifices of our traditional life patterns and personal interests". -- Mostafa Tolba, Chairman of the Commission on Sustainable Development

"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." -- Abraham Lincoln [1864]

"The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis." --Sir Jonathon Porritt

"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river." --Ross Perot

"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!" -- Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

"I Cannot Do All the Good that the World Needs, But the World Needs All the Good That I Can Do"    --Jana Stanfield

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." -- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)