To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

-Steve Prefontaine

To be brave is not to be fearless. It is when you fear and you get over it, then you can be called brave. I am human. It is not that I fear nothing. But getting over a fear is a continuous process and I have been successful so far.

-Preity Zinta

(On receipt of the Godfrey's Mind of Steel Award)

A friendly look, a kindly smile, one good act, and life’s worthwhile.

-Author unknown

It's not what is happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you are going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

- Anthony Robbins

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

- Fredrick Keonig

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'

-Don Marquis

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

-Pablo Picasso

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

-Mark Twain

Some people walk in the rain... others just get wet...

-Roger Miller

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

-Baruch Spinoza

People should know what you stand for. They should also know what you won't stand for.

--Author Unknown

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

-John Wooden

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

--Roy Disney