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“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
Albert Einstein

“Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on.”
Brian Tracy

“You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.”
Frank Herbert

“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward … promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
C.S. Lewis

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.”
C.S. Lewis

“All is safe where all can read," is a quotation from Thomas Jefferson showing his belief in the importance of everyone knowing how to and being able/allowed to read. I would like to take it one step further.  I would say, "All is BETTER when all can read." No matter what you like to read, the ability to read it, understand it, and enjoy it, truly enriches your life.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Cynicism is a choice, and hope is a better choice.”
Barack Obama

“To lead any way other than by example, we send a fuzzy picture of leadership to others. If we work on improving ourselves first and make that our primary mission, then others are more likely to follow.”
John C. Maxwell

“In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.”
Brian Tracy

“I wrote everything into Anna Karenina, and nothing was left over.”
Leo Tolstoy

“The Courage to Teach,” 
John C. Maxwell

“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
Rick Warren

“The New testament commanded to love each other, pray for each other, encourage each other, admonish each other, greet each other, serve each other, teach each other, accept each other, honor each other, bear each other's burdens, forgive each other, submit to each other, be devoted each other, and many other mutual tasks. This is biblical membership!”
Rick Warren

“If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction  that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful.  If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction  that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that  you want to be like.”
Brian Tracy

“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."
Leo Tolstoy

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