Achievement
God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
John Ruskin

None of us has gotten where we are solely by pulling ourselves up from our own bootstraps. We got here because somebody bent down and helped us.
Thurgood Marshall

Achievement - Worth
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Cullen Hightower

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

Adversity - Challenge
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. in Strength of Love, 1963.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden

Advertising
The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.
David Ogilvy

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.  
John Wanamaker

Age
Just remember, when you're over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
Charles Schulz

The irony of life is that, by the time you're old enough to know your way around, you're not going anywhere.
Unknown

Age - Wisdom
That is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise, they grow careful.
Ernest Hemingway

Alcohol - Drinking
Drink has never made a man better, but it made many a man think he was better.
Finley Peter Dunne

Appreciation
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.
Dale Dauten

Argument
You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.
Lord John Morely

Art
Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.
Remy de Gourmont

Aspirations - Goals - Dreams
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to reach them.
Louisa May Alcott

Associates
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington

Attitude
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Tom Blan

Authority - Wisdom
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge: fitter to bruise than to polish.
Anne Bradstreet

Baseball
Baseball may be the nation's game;
With throw and run and hit;
But first among the skills, it seems,
Is learning how to spit.
Art Buck

Beauty
Beauty isn't worth thinking about. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Garrison Keillor

Beauty - Words
Words can be beautiful, so can dreams, so can hopes.
F. Clifton White

Behavior
The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we bahave when we don't know what to do.
John Holt

Best
Doing your best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey

Brain
Not even the universe with its countless millions of galaxies represents greater wonder or complexity than the human brain. The human brain is a mirror to infinity. There is no limit to its range, scope, or capacity for creative growth.
Norman Cousins in Head First

Brave - Cautious
The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all.
Timothy Luce

Brave - Courage
You can't be brave if you only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore

Brothers
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Bureaucrats
The only people in the world who can say absolutely nothing and mean it.
James H. Boren