Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.”

~ Dale Carnegie

Ellen DeGeneres

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values. 

~Ellen DeGeneres

Veronica A. Shoffstall

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

~Veronica A. Shoffstall

After a While.

Robert Collier

See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. 

~Robert Collier

James Madison

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. 

~James Madison

Mahatma Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,

that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower

where I thought a flower would grow.

- Abraham Lincoln