We are in a time when we lack for heroes. Men and women who are just and principled, balanced and focused. Not perfect, but still, role models who provide us with hope and who light the way.

In this section we offer bits of wisdom and guidance provided by personalities both in the past as well as the present.

We invite your comments and suggestions.


On Leadership

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader

On Work

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle, teacher

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Harvey Mackay, entrepreneur

On Education

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Brooks Adams, historian

On Success

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe, tennis champion

On Failure

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford, actress

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, philosopher

On Positive Attitude

Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.
Pat Riley, basketball coach

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne, singer

Being a professional is doing all the things you love to do on the days you don't feel like doing them.
Julius Irving II, basketball player

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
Barbara Sher, author

On Taking Action

Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil, poet

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
Epictetus, Greek philosopher

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Mark Twain, writer

On Creativity

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
John Salk, microbiologist

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes, philosopher, mathematician

On Dealing With People

It is tact that is golden not silence.
Samuel Butler, writer