ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Christ is always with us and accomplishes His works in us: "... teach them to observe all the commands I gave you. And know that I am with you always until the end of days." - Jesus (Matt 28:19-20)
All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God, because they reckoned on God's being with them. - J. Hudson Taylor
If you want to be remembered after you're dead, write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about. - Benjamin Franklin
If you can imagine it, you can posses it. If you can dream it, you can become it. If you can envision it, you can attain it. If you can picture it, you can achieve it. - William Arthur Ward
ACCOUNTABILITY
"What is the greatest thought that has ever passed through your head?" someone asked Daniel Webster. He answered, "My accountability to God."
ACTION (& INITIATIVE)
"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all." - Norman Vincent Peale
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who 
look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein
To excel in football you must act quickly
There is no beauty but the beauty of action. - Proverb
"Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind."
- Brian Tracy
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett Hale
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
"Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action."
-- Brendan Francis
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Shira Tehrani
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom
Science may have found a cure for most 
evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. - Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. - Hugh Prather
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. 
- Lao Tzu
"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."
- Anthony Robbins
People can be divided into three: those who make things happen, those watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
- John W. Newbern
Getting up the courage to take that first step
For all sad words of tongue and pen,
The saddest are these,
'It might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. - Kahlil Gibran
"The most drastic and usually the most effective remedy for fear is direct action." -- William Burnham
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. - Irish Proverb
Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen. - Anonymous
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. - Chinese Proverb
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Every hand does its part to hold up the world
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
- C.S. Lewis
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Actions speak louder than words. - English Proverb
The beginning is the half of every action. - Greek Proverb
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be yet thankful. - Colossians 3:15
"Every living creature that comes into the world has something allotted him to perform; therefore, he should not stand an idle spectator of what others are doing." - Sarah Kirby Trimmer
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman
"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny." -- Don Sutton
"We can't afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be." -- Denis Waitley
"Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear, positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of." -- Mark Victor Hansen
"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference." -- Nolan Bushnell
"Take action every day - some small dose at a time." -- Jeffrey Gitomer
"Nothing will work unless you do." -- John Wooden
See everything; overlook a lot; deal with a little. - Pope John XXIII
"If a brother or sister is in need of clothes or food and one of you says, 'May things go well for you; be warm and satisfied,' without attending to their material needs, what good is that? So it is for faith without deeds: it is totally dead." - James 2:15-17
ADOLESCENCE
Adolescence is like a house on moving day - a temporary mess. - Julius E. Warren
Adolescence is that period in life when a youngster apologizes to his friends for having old-fashioned parents. - anonymous
ADULTHOOD
An adult is aperson who has stopped growing everywhere except in the middle. - anonymous
ADVENTURE
"Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life – facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential." -- John Amatt
"Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance." -- Milton R. Saperstein
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." -- Helen Keller
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious." -- Albert Einstein
"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end." -- Ursula Le Guin
"Never forget that life can only be noble inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle." -- Annie Besant
"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered." -- G.K. Chesterton
"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything." -- Laurence Sterne
"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys." -- Antoine do Saint-Exupery
Adversity (and Challenge)
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with. 
- Leighton
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
- Anonymous
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock. - Anonymous
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back. - Anonymous
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?
- I Peter
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who 
know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. -George S. Patton
Adventure is worthwhile. - Amelia Earhart
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
- William Ellery Channing
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. - Brian Weir
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. - Greek Proverb
We are like tea bags - we don't know 
our own strength until we're in hot water.
- Sister Busche
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
- James 1:24, RSV
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Battome
Anger
- Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Cherie Carter-Scott
Anyone, any age, can get angry. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- Confucius
The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence.
- Anonymous
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
- Joan Lunden
When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day. - Anonymous
The best remedy for anger is delay. - Brigham Young
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. - Benjamin Franklin
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Elizabeth I
- People all over the world get angry, that's one of many things we have in common
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. - Mario Puzo- People all over the world get angry, that's one of many things we have in common
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If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
- Epictetus -
Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it. - Chinese Proverb
Anger is a bad adviser. - French Proverb
Eventually, we hope, we gain the wisdom to deal with anger
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. - Aristotle
He who flings mud, loses a lot of ground. - Anonymous
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. - Proverbs 29:11
If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different.
- Harriet Lerner
Anger helps strengthen out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers.
- Susan Mancotte
Attitude
Attitude determines altitude. - Anonymous
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
...Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home.
The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. - Charles Swindoll
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
- Anonymous
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - Anonymous
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your 
company liking himself.
- Anonymous
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Be who you are in every situation.
- Michael Johnson
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it. - Anonymous
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.- Anonymous
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. - Henry Ford 
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. - Emmanuel
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations. - Anonymous
Security is a kind of death.
- Tennessee Williams, Esquire, September, 1971
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole. - Anonymous
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much;
Wisdom is humble that she knows no more. - Cowper
Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag. - Anonymous
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. - Anonymous
BASEBALL
Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run. - Branch Rickey
I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. - John Kruk
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. -- Hank Aaron
You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper. -- Jane Goodsell
He could speak in eight languages, but he couldn't hit in any of them.
-- Ted Lyons, on Moe Berg
I see great things in baseball. It's our game -- the American game. It will take our people out of doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair those losses, and be a blessing to us.
-- Walt Whitman
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
-- George Brett
If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it. -- Dick Allen
I don't mind catching your fastball at all. Naturally, I'd want to have a glove on in case you might be having an especially good day. -- Gene Green, to pitcher Jim Brosnan
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
-- Dave Barry
Baseball is a lot like the Army, there aren't many individuals. About the only difference is that baseball players get to stay in nice hotels instead of barracks. -- Bill Lee
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. -- Ted Williams
Beauty
What worth has beauty if it is not seen? - Italian Proverb
Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream.
- Walloon Proverb
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want only destroy. - Reverend Sean Parker Dennison
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves - Salma Hayek
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
- Turkish Proverb
Beauty is the gift of God. - Aristotle
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. - Joseph Addison
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. - D.H. Lawrence
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head. - Proverbs 20:29
BEING THE BEST
"Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is…It’s your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best." -- Sir Laurence Olivier
"Our deepest fear is NOT that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God: your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you."
-- Nelson Mandela
"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be." -- Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
"The greater the danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." -- Michelangelo Buonarroti
BELIEF
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -- William James
"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs." -- Dr. Maxwell Maltz
"Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail." -- Charles F. Kettering
"If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done." -- Dale Carnegie
Brotherhood
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones. - Anwar el Sadat
Friends can bond anywhere, doing anything
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. - Irish proverb
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. - Max Lerner.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw
You lift me, and I'll lift you, and we'll ascend together. - Anonymous
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
We may have all come from different ships, but we’re on the same boat now. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Toleration is the best religion. -Victor Hugo
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor, --it requires only that they live with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement. - John F. Kennedy, Jr.
VITAMINS FOR THE SOUL
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