"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
- The Buddha

"The future depends on what we do in the present."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."
- Japanese proverb

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
Og Mandino

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Og Mandino

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
Og Mandino

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, Another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start of no start at all. You were not born to fail.
Og Mandino

I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Og Mandino

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.
Og Mandino

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino