If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

-John Quincy Adams-

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

-John Quincy Adams-

To live well is to work well.

-Saint Thomas Aquinas-

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

-Walter Bagehot-

Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

-Napoleon Bonaparte-

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

-Samuel Butler-

Swifter, higher, stronger.

-Pierre de Coubertin-

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

-Thomas A. Edison-

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

When you work, you fulfill a part of earth's fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born.

-Kahlil Gibran-

Work is love made visible.

-Kahlil Gibran-

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

-Theodore I. Rubin-

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.  

-Seneca-

When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally.

-Lao Tzu-

All grand thoughts come from the heart.

-Vauvenargues-