"Calm is a state of mind when not scared. It is most often found in those who are prepared."

Wes Fessler

Caring

"If you care for someone; frequently assess how much they believe you care, and then exceed their expectations."

Wes Fessler

Caring

"How much you care for someone is based on three perspectives: how much you know you care; how much the person you care for believes you care; and how much other people believe you care for that person. Unfortunately, the latter two carry most of the weight in the equation."

Wes Fessler

Challenges

Challenges Always be bigger than your challenges. Wes Fessler

Challenges

"Challenges are unpleasant opportunities to grow stronger."

Wes Fessler

Change

"Never let fear of the future prevent you from changing today."

Wes Fessler

Character

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Character

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

Plato

Character

"It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."

Aristotle

Character

"Character is a beautiful canyon that withstands the erosion of time."

Wes Fessler

Character

"Good people come from good examples by learning to do good. Great people emerge from bad examples by learning to do better."

Wes Fessler

Charity

"The human heart is strongest with charitable veins." 

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Charity

"The true glory of standing on top is the ability to lift others higher."

Wes Fessler

Charity

"The difference between charity and sympathy is that charity makes a difference."

Wes Fessler

Charity

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."

Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Charity

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Charles Dickens

Charm

"Charm is the ability to coax a smile from someone who is doing your job."

Wes Fessler

Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness A cheerful mood is pleasantly contagious and delightfully addictive. Wes Fessler

Childish

"Clearly there is no age limit for childish behavior."

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Children

"Your children are your most beautiful reflection."

Wes Fessler

Christmas

"Christmas is a time when selflessness is its own reward."

Wes Fessler

Christmas

"Christmas is a day when the world is as beautiful as the ideals of its creator."

Wes Fessler

Christmas

"Fill every heart with charity as Christmas comes again. Let love and peace and harmony rule all the souls of men."

Wes Fessler

Christmas

"The magic of Christmas turns all eyes skyward to heavenly peace and a star which beckons human-kind toward humanity."

Wes Fessler

Cleanliness

"Cleanliness is the cornerstone of discipline and the trademark of success."

Wes Fessler 

Cleverness  

"A spark of cleverness outshines an inferno of intelligence."

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Commitment  

"Commitment hangs on when all else has fallen."

Wes Fessler

Commitment

"There is no better asset, nor worse limitation than one's personal level of commitment."

Wes Fessler

Commitment

"Commitment achieves today what yesterday was impossible."

Wes Fessler

Commitment

"A family ship will never sink until it is abandoned by its crew."

Wes Fessler

Compassion

"Compassion conquers without casualties."

Wes Fessler

Compassion

"Listen to the weary heart with weight unduly born. Reflect on any moment you were given cause to mourn. Give thought, and do the right thing if there's something you can do. For in your hour of grief would not some aid have lifted you?"

Wes Fessler

Competition

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

Andrew Carnegie

Competition

"Even when the ultimate reward of life is death, mankind will still fight each other to be first at the finish line."

Wes Fessler

Confidence

Confidence Confidence is the product of preparation, dedication, perspiration, and when all else fails...improvisation. Wes Fessler

Confidence

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare

Conflict

"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles--right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it."

Abraham Lincoln

Conflict

"Conflict is life's way of dealing two equally bad choices."

Wes Fessler

Conscience

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."

Abraham Lincoln

Consistency

"Consistency's path is straightforward and true; and its course, good or bad, helps you learn what to do."

Wes Fessler

Contemplation

Contemplation Contemplation frees the mind to reach the soul's content. Wes Fessler

Contentment

"Enjoy the brief moments when life brings content, because most of the time you won't know where they went."

Wes Fessler

Contentment

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Benjamin Franklin

Contentment

"If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires."

Epicurus

Contentment

"By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus

Control

"Complete chaos is commonly preceded by the words I am in control."

Wes Fessler

Control

"What measure have we above any earthly creature without control of our temperament? When we act merely upon our instincts, there can be no distinction."

Wes Fessler

Conviction

"Stand up for what you believe in, when you know what you stand for is right. You will find that you're already beaten, when you're not ever willing to fight. In a matter of goodness and evil, it is not wise to sit on a wall. You must stand up for what you believe in, or you'll only be destined to fall."

Wes Fessler 

Conviction

"I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles until death."

Thomas Paine

Conviction

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Mark Twain

Cooperation

"Cooperation is the redeeming ability of man to be better than himself."

Wes Fessler 

Courage

"Without danger and discomfort there can be no courage."

Wes Fessler

Courage

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear."

Mark Twain

Courage

"To see what is right and not do it is want of courage."

Confucius

Courage

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

Mark Twain

Courtesy

"Just one thing about courtesy you should learn, it will always expect something in return."

Wes Fessler

Creativity

"There is no vacant space in a creative mind."

Wes Fessler

Creativity

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Credibility

"Credibility is commitment to honoring your promises."

Wes Fessler

Criticism

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

Socrates

Criticism

"For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth."

Wes Fessler

Cunning

"The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

Cunning

"The only substitute for hard work is a tremendous amount of cunning."

Wes Fessler

Curiosity

"Curiosity fed the dog."

Wes Fessler