Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
-Chilton

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-Mark Twain

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is.
-Sir Winston Churchill

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
-Thomas Jefferson

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
-William Shakespeare

"Truth hurts. Not the searching after, the running from."
~ John Eyberg

"The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty . . . the better I feel about the quality of my work."
~ Wayne Dyer

"Is mastering the art of self-creation as important to you as learning another language?"
~ Steve Chandler, "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself"

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
~ Albert Schweitzer

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
~ Anatole France

"Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."
~ Claude Bernard

"Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself."
~ Katherine Sharp

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
~ Aristotle

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."
~ Jack Dixon

"Live with no time out."
~ Simone de Beauvoir

"A happy brain is a balanced brain. And a laughing brain is a creative brain."
~ Anne Wilson Schaef

"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
~ Les Brown

"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost."
~ Martha Graham

"As the season of believing seems to wind down let me gently remind you that many dreams still wait in the wings. Many authentic sparks must be fanned before passion performs her perfect work in you. Throw another log on the fire."
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
~ Pablo Picasso

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
~ Sydney Smith {1771-1845 English Clergyman & Writer}

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
~ William Osler {1849-1919 Canadian Physician}

"The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables called habits, attitudes, and desires. What you do in life depends upon what you are and what you want. What you get from life depends on how much you want it, how much you are willing to work and plan and co-operate and use your resources. The long span of the bridge of your life is supported by countless cables that you are spinning now, and that is why today is such an important day. Make the cables strong."
~ L.G. Elliott

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
~ Katherine Mansfield

"Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination."
~ Robert Schuller, Evangelist

"The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time."
~ Abraham Lincoln {1809-1865, 16th US President}

"By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path."
~ Julia Cameron

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was."
~ Richard L. Evans

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
~ Robert Louis Stevenson {1850-1894 Scottish Author & Poet}

"Ideas move rapidly when their time comes."
~ Carolyn Heilbrun

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
~ Judy Garland

"The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat."
~ Lilly Tomlin