In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
Albert Einstein

We are given one life, and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."

Omar Bradley (1893-1981)
Military Leader, WW II Figure

"The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now."
Eleanor Roosevelt

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

"The best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend."
Abraham Lincoln

"People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Leonardo da Vinci

"When you're going through hell, keep going!"
Winston Churchill

"I never worry about action, but only about inaction."
Winston Churchill

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
Thomas Edison

"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."
Mohandas Gandhi

"We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past."
Winston Churchill

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies."
Robert F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss it."
John F. Kennedy

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in time of challenge and controversy."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
George Washington

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
John F. Kennedy

"The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Thomas Jefferson

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership."
Dwight D. Eisenhower

"We are all pencils in the hand of a writing God, who is sending love letters to the world."
Mother Theresa

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
Theodore Roosevelt

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi

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