1. Be The BEST You
Can Be
By: Matthew J. Hines

2. Leadership
• Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon
• Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do
something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
• The real leader has no need to lead--
he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller
• A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
• If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more,
do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams

3. Motivation
• If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond
your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
• The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by
going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
• Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it,
casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Samuel Smiles
• Men's best successes come after their
disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

4. Inspiration
• Try not to become a man of success but a man of
value.
Albert Einstein
• Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle
• First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

5. Success
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental
attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can
help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
• The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give
you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please
everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

6. Happiness
• Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the
feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus
• The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your
thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
Marcus Aurelius
• There is only one person who could ever make you happy,
and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections
• There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease
worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

7. Personal Growth
• It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Agnes Repplier
• If we do not plant knowledge when young, it
will give us no shade when we are old.
Lord Chesterfield
• Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only
of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

8. Words of Wisdom
• It is easier to be wise for others than for
ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
• By associating with wise people you will become
wise yourself.
Menander
• The art of being wise is knowing what to
overlook.
William James

9. References
• http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/index.html