Accident

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Direction

All the world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
-Italian Proverb

Money

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches; the wrong comes when riches possess men.
- Billy Graham

Troubles

The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things.
- Bertrand Russel

Creativity

An uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot wrong questions.
- A. Jay

Helping

No man can help another who will not try to help himself.

Ambition

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
- Kahlil Gibran

Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
- Nicolo Machiaveli

Music

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Music is the space between the notes.
- Achille-Claude Debussy

Without music life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.
- Sergei Rachmaninoff

Deception

You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln

Popularity

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette—the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.
- John Tyler

Greatness

A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
- Elbert Huddard

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds rise above it.
- Washinton Irving

Morality

The young boy and girl trained in the teachings of the Bible have a moral reliance which serves as a moral compass for everyday living. They know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil.
- J. Edgar Hoover

Good Example

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
- Thomas Morell

Ideals

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances towards it.
- Richard Whatley

Vocation

The test of vocation is the love of drudgery it involves.
- L.P. Smith

Wisdom

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.
- Shakespeare

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James

Responsibility

A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
- Stanton

Selfishness

The more anyone speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.
- Lavater

Lying

Half the truth will often amount to absolute falsehood.
- Whatley

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.
- Zimmerman

Reputation

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
- Joseph Hall