Father

Honour thy father and thy mother stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness - Aeschylus

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong - Charles Wadsworth

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it - Clarence Buddinton Kelland

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters - George Herbert

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity - Jean Paul Richter

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life - Lido Anthony Iacocca

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years - Mark Twain

Doubt

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it - André Gide

For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt - Henry Louis Mencken

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fanatic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are not sure that we are doubly sure - Reinhold Niebuhr

If there were no falsehood in the world, there would be no doubt; if there were no doubt, there would be no inquiry; if no inquiry, no wisdom, no knowledge, no genius - Walter Savage Landor

When in doubt wear red - Bill Blass

Preparation

None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for a lifetime - Gail Kathleen Godwin

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs - Mario Andretti

So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year - Thomas Dreier

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine - William Feather

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech - Mark Twain

Love

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists - Anita Brookner

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more - Erica Jong

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked - Erich Segal

Love never reasons, but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles then lest it has done too little - Hannah More

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything - Katharine Hepburn

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing - Mignon McLaughlin

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new - Ursula K. LeGuin

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning - Vincent van Gogh

Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important - Lisa Hoffman

Leadership

Do not follow where the path may lead.Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail - Harold R. McAlindon (also attributed to Emerson and others)

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it - Dwight D. Eisenhower

There go the people.I must follow them for I am their leader - Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him - General Douglas MacArthur

The real leader has no need to lead--he is content to point the way - Henry Miller

If your actions inspire others to dream more,learn more, do more and become more,you are a leader - John Quincy Adams


He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander - Aristotle

Balance

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man - Euripides

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves - Francis J. Braceland

What I dream of is an art of balance - Henri Matisse

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within - Jose Ortega y Gasset

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time - Oprah Winfrey

Pardon & Forgiveness

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon - Francis Bacon

Love truth but pardon error - François Marie Arouet

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned - Saint Francis of Assisi

Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them - Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld