Focus and Flexibility

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
- Brian Tracy

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is
that one comes from a strong will,
and the other from a strong won't.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated;
you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again,
but expecting different results.
- Rita Mae Brown (also attributed to Einstein)

Be resolute in your goals, but flexible in your tactics.
There are times that call for repetition and perseverance;
and there are times that require new ways of thinking and doing.
The challenge is knowing one from the other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Focus

Practice makes perfect - sometimes

Tilting at Windmills

Bounce Back

New Beginning

Never Give Up

Habit

Each To Their Own

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling
with other men's concerns.
- Plato

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
- John F. Kennedy

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
[and freedom is equally the right of others to live as they wish]

Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

To know what you prefer
instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Further reading: Celebrating Our Differences

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil

Respect Others

Your True Self

Give People the Gift of Themselves

Different and yet the Same

Understanding

Stay Cheerful

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man
are fixed upon the same creation;
but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
- Albert Pike

I am determined to be cheerful and happy
in whatever situation I may find myself.
For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness
is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.
- Martha Washington

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness

Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

How to Stay Positive

Secrets of Happy Couples

Smile and Have a Good Morning

Cheer Someone Else Up

Happiness

Attitude

Cast the First Stone

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
- Jesus (John 8:7)

A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin 

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy,
hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.
- Frederick William Robertson

Live so that when your children think of fairness,
caring and integrity, they think of you.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower 

Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating.
Youngsters need good models more than they need critics.
It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden

If you want others to follow your example,
don't criticize or cajole others,
but rather live your own life
in a manner that convincingly demonstrates
both the virtue and the success
of your way of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Honor - an Essential Virtue

Leading by Example

Joy Blooms Where Minds and Hearts are Open

Role Model

Grant That I May Radiate

Forgiveness

Children
 

Never Too Old

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw

Just smiling goes a long way toward making you feel better about life.
And when you feel better about life, your life is better.
With an optimistic, positive attitude toward life,
the possibilities for your second prime are tremendous.
- Art Linkletter expressed these thoughts on smiling, positive attitude and a second prime when he was 94.

You are only as old as you think you are.
- Anonymous

Live your best life, not your age.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Never Too Late

Aging With Grace by Dr. David Mokotoff

Growing up without growing old

How to Stay Young

Renewing Yourself

Your Life

Grace