Know Your Values

"When you know your values are, you can do a magical thing: prioritize! Knowing your values means that you spend your life doing things that you really care about, leaving unimportant tasks alone."

-- Conor Patterson


"Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

-- Oliver Wendall Holmes


"Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One."

-- Benjamin Franklin


"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

-- Maria Robinson

Faith To Take Bold Steps

"We can all grow our potential. The faith to take bold steps towards that potential can come from many places. Be a source of faith unto yourself while also taking faiths from the achievements of others"

-- Conor Patterson


"Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

-- Peter Drucker


"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

-- Kirsten Zambucka

Responsible For Our Lives

"When we are responsible for our lives, we have the power to choose in all aspects where choice is possible. We can choose our lifestyle, our diet, our dress code, our career, our income, our place of residence and our reaction to circumstances."

-- Conor Patterson


"Being wrong doesn't mean being creative - but if you aren't afraid of being wrong, you can't be creative."

-- Ken Robinson


"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."

-- Ann Landers



"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

Acting From Your Heart

"When you act from your heart, you will find yourself moving towards things that really matter to you, things that you love. If you can have the things you love, then there is no problem. If you cannot, then knowing whether you can change the situation or not will make life unimaginably easier."

-- Conor Patterson


"If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence."

-- John B. Gough

(1817-1886, British-born American temperance orator)

Life Becomes Struggle in Two Ways

"Life becomes a struggle in two ways, either we fight to make something happen that is destined not to happen, or we fail to exercise our will power when there is something we absolutely can change."

-- Conor Patterson


"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

-- Edward Phelps


"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

-- Edward Eggleston


"We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once."

-- Calvin Coolidge

When Your Sacrifice Your Freewill

"If you do not exercise choice in your life, then your cards will be played randomly and they are less likely to fall in your favor. If you do not exercise the massive power of choice you hold at every moment of your life, then your sacrifice your freewill."

-- Conor Patterson


"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."

-- Andre Maurois


"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

-- Winston Churchill


"Don't be just another member of society, be a living example of your dreams and goals.

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-- Arthur Wang

Succession of Spontaneous Loving Acts

"When life is a succession of spontaneous loving acts, then your true nature is revealed. You get to enjoy the experience of being yourself all and every day."

-- Conor Patterson


"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld


"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

-- Henry Ford


"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."

-- Henry Clay

Experience of Events Give Meaning

"During life, it is the experience of events that give them meaning not the events themselves."

-- Conor Patterson


"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death."

-- Leonardo da Vinci


"Problems only exist in the human mind."

-- Anthony de Mello


"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

-- Charlie Chaplin

What Money Buys and Not Buys

"It is good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven't lost the things money can't buy."

-- George Lorimer


"The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home, reads only a page."

--Saint Augustine


"Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success."

-- Rev. Randall R. McBride


"What a bargain grandchildren are! I give them my loose change, and they give me a million dollars' worth of pleasure."

-- Gene Perret

Walking on The Edge

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly."

-- Patrick Overton


"You learn something every day if you pay attention."

-- Ray LeBlond


"The first one gets the oyster, the second gets the shell."

-- Andrew Carnegie


"The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson