"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves; to break our own records; to outstrip our yesterdays by our todays; to bear our trials more beautifullly than we ever dreamed we could; to give as we never have given; to do our work with more force and a finer finish than ever. This is the true idea: to get ahead of ourselves." - Carl Holmes
The Ways
To every man there openeth
A Way, and Ways and a way.
And the High Soul climbs the High Way,
And the Low Soul gropes the Low,
And in between, on the misty flats,
The rest drift to and fro.
But to every man there openeth
A High Way, and a Low,
And every man decideth
The way his soul shall go
- John Oxenham
"Don't bring me your successes, for they weaken me;
rather, bring me your problems, for they strengthen me."
-Boss Kettering, Former President, General Motors
"We cannot all be John Cabots, sailing off into
the blue with the king's patent to discover new lands;
but we can be explorers in spirit, with democracy's
mandate to make this land better by discovering
new ways of living and doing things.
The spirit of exploration, whether it be of the
surface of the earth or the principles of living greatly,
includes developing the capacity to face trouble
with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness,
and triumph with humility."
-Royal Bank of Canada Newsletter
"You see things and you say, 'Why?'
But i dream things that never were, and i say,
'Why not?'"
-George Bernard Shaw