Beauty
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
--Kahlil Gibran

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf."
--Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

"Beauty is the gift of God."
--Aristotle

"Anything in anyway beautiful derives its beauty from itself."
--Marcus Aurelius

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
--Socrates

"Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels."
--Charlie Chaplin

Becoming
"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
--James Allen

"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."
--Oscar Levant (1906-1972), American pianist & actor

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become."
--James Allen

Beginning
"He who would begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin."
--Horace

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
--J. B. Priestly

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
--Maria Robinson

"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith for rather than reason."
--Hal Borland

"All glory comes from daring to begin."
--Eugene F. Ware, American novelist and editor

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."
--Plato

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
--Mark Twain

"...if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
--Ivan Turgenev

"Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take OFF! But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you."
--Amelia Earhart

"Distance doesn't matter; it's only the first step that is difficult."
--Marquise du Delfand

"The first blow is half the battle."
--Oliver Goldsmith

"He who has begun is half done."
--Horace

"The first step is the hardest."
--Madame De Vichy-Deffand

"A hard beginning makes a good ending."
--John Heywood

"Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again."
--Henry Ford

"Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
--Liz Smith

"Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster."
--William Bridges, American author

Being
"To do is to be."
--Socrates

"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."
--Katharine Hepburn, US actress

"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."
--Coco Chanel

"Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious . . . . As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
--Carl Jung

Believe
"Nothing splendid has every been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances."
--Bruce Barton

"Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will."
--Norman Vincent Peale

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
--William James

"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions."
--Brian Tracy

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, heroes are made by believing."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
--Denis Waitley

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
--Walt Disney

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests."
--John Stuart Mill

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
--Frank Lloyd Wright

"Man is what he believes."
--Anton Chekhov

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."
--John Lilly

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes."
--Benjamin Disraeli

"The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition... The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives."
--Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. writer, from "The Air-Conditioned Nightmare", (1945).

"Believe not all you can hear; tell not all you believe."
--Native American proverb

"Whatever you believe with emotion becomes reality. You always act in a manner consistent with your innermost beliefs and convictions."
-- Brian Tracy

"If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad."
--Denis Waitley

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."
--Walt Disney

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine with only interests."
--John Stuart Mill

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
--William James

Blame
"The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice."
--Doug Larson

BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.

Body
"The mind may undoubtedly affect the body; but the body also affects the mind. There is a reaction between them; and by lessening it on either side, you diminish the pain on both."
--Leigh Hunt

Boldness
"The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources."
--Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), American Pastor, speaker & author

Boredom
"Somebody's boring me; I think it's me."
--Dylan Thomas

"The life of the creative man is led, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."
--Saul Steinberg (b. June 15, 1914), Cartoonist for New Yorker Magazine

Boundaries
"Those who make some other person their job ... are dangerous."
--Dorothy L. Sayers (b. June 13, 1893)

Brain
"The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
--Robert Frost

Brotherhood
"The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and therefore, brothers."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The world has narrowed to a neighborhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood."
--Lyndon B. Johnson

"You don't live in the world alone. Your brothers live there too."
--Albert Schweitzer

"The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth."
--Wilfred Grenfell

Build
"I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build."
--John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Business
"Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer. We consider our customers a part of our organization, and we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings -- and they will always come back."
--L.L. Bean

"Emotions are your worst enemy in the stock market."
--Don Hays

"The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win."
--Joey Adams (1911-), US comedian, author from "Reader's Digest", 1 Aug. 1985.

"Should you trust a stockbroker who's married to a travel agent?"
--Unknown

"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
--Mark Twain

"Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy."
--Marshall Field

"I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary."
--Kim Basinger

"The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows."
--Aristotle Onassis

"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
--William Wrigley Jr.

"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."
--Geoffrey Beene

"Business has only two functions -- marketing and innovation."
--Peter F. Drucker

"Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it."
--Peter Lynch

"You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart."
--Thomas J. Watson

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."
--Henry Luce

"If you did not look after today's business then you might as well forget about tomorrow."
--Isaac Mophatlane