May

1. We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. - Stevie Wonder
2. Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. -Baltasar Gracian
3. Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.-Francis of Assisi
4. Good intentions are not good enough... ultimately we are measured by our actions.
5. Fate knows where you are going, but it is up to you to drive there.
Michelle Keesling
6. Courage is grace under pressure.-Ernest Hemingway
7. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.-G. K. Chesterton
8. In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.-Anonymous
9. Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.-Theodore N. Vail
10. There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.-Phyllis Bottome
11. Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
12. Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed, it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road.
13. Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.-Bernice Johnson Reagon
14. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.-Henry David Thoreau
15. Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.-Neil Kendall
16. The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.-Thomas J. Watson, Sr
17. A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.-Mary Kay Ash
18. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.-Fitzhugh Dodson
19. The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.-Benjamin Mays
20. Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.-William Jennings Bryan
21. 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
22. One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.-Anonymous
23. Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.-Will Rogers
24. Knowledge that has a constructive mission becomes power that has unlimited capacity.
25. Start anew today because with each new sunrise there can be found a new way.
26. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. -Jack Kinder
27. The search for wisdom is a great challenge; to act on wisdom is an even greater challenge. -Anonymous
28. The quality of a person’s character is in direct proportion to their commitment and persistence, regardless of the height of the mountain.

29. For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
30. The mind, grappling with great aims and wrestling with mighty impediments, grows by a certain necessity to the stature of greatness. -Bryant
31. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character. -Stephan R. Covey