An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
Rene Descartes

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
Harry S. Truman

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.
Harry S. Truman

Force has no place where there is need of skill.
Herodotus

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Earl Nightingale

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
Herodotus

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Jack Welch

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
Marcus Garvey

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Earl Nightingale

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale

You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
Earl Nightingale

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
Ron White

This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages them in encouraging dialogues, constantly checking for understanding and growth.
William Glasser

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.
William Glasser

Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.
William Glasser

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
Lady Gaga