Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"Hitch your wagon to a star."

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
   And sorry I could not travel both
   And be one traveler, long I stood
   And looked down one as far as I could
   To where it bent in the undergrowth;
   Then took the other, as just as fair,
   And having perhaps the better claim,
   Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
   Though as for that the passing there
   Had worn them really about the same
   And both that morning equally lay
   In leaves no step had trodden black.
   Oh, I kept the first for another day!
   Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
   I doubted if I should ever come back.
   I shall be telling this with a sigh
   Somewhere ages and ages hence:
   Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
   I took the one less traveled by,
   and that has made all the difference.

Unknown

"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be."
"It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final."
"If everything is going well, you don't know what the heck is going on."
"Only dead fish swim with the stream."

Barbara Pletcher

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."

Walter Elliott

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."