Day 1:

Learning from others

Even when walking in a party of now more than three I can always be certain of learning from those I am with. There will be good qualities that I can select for imitation and bad ones that will teach me what requires correction in myself.

Day 2: Education It is only the ignorant that despise education.

Day 3:

Dress Code

How you dress reflects on the way you do everything.

Day 4:

Rules

If you are going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule.

Day 5:

Goals

I grew up in circumstances that really should have prevented me from being here today, but I knew my mind could take me anywhere.

Day 6:

Choices

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

Day 7:

Golden Rule

We should behave to our friends as we wish our friends to behave to us.

Day 8:

Self-Responsibility

Parents can only give good advice or put their children on the right path, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

Day 9:

Perception

As a man is, so he sees.

Day 10:

Gratitude

There is no greater disaster than greed (or as the Japanese say it: He who knows not when he has enough, is poor).

Day 11:

Persistence

Fall seven times, stand up the eighth time.

Day 12:

Brotherhood

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but we have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers (or as the Chinese say it: All under Heaven. One family.

Day 13:

Vision

Whatever you do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Day 14:

Belief in Oneself

You are the best…our hope for the future; remember that!

Day 15:

Taking Action

There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who say “What happened?”

Day 16:

Starting a Project

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Day 17:

Positive Thinking

Thoughts are things.

Day 18:

Love

Living is the individual’s responsibility.

Day 19:

Courage

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

Day 20:

Might

Who is mighty? One who makes an enemy into a friend.

Day 21:

Education

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Day 22:

Learning From Mistakes

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.

Day 23:

Diversity

If a man does not keep pace with his companion…perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far.

Day 24:

Taking Action

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Day 25:

Influencing Others

“We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”

Day 26:

Persistence

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Day 27:

Productivity

You must be directed to work…single-minded… and be productive. But you don’t mind because you are fulfilled and productive.

Day 28:

Success

It makes a great deal of difference in the life of a race, as it does in the life of an individual, whether the world expects much or little of that individual or of that race.

Day 29:

Overcoming Loneliness

To have a friend, be a friend.

Day 30:Choices • Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Day 31:Cleanliness A pure heart is a good thing, and so is a clean shirt.

Day 32:Respect You will not be respected unless you respect yourself.

Day 33:Caring All children are essential to America’s future. We don’t have a child to waste. We will not be a strong country unless we invest in every one of our children.

Day 34:Generosity You give but little when you give your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Day 35:Friendship The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Day 36:(Honesty) Integrity Honesty is the best policy.

Day 37:Fairness What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Day 38:Experience Irish: An old broom knows the dirty corners best.

Chinese: To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Day 39:Gratitude Be happy with what you have and you will have plenty to be happy about.

Day 40:Wisdom Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom.

Day 41:Doing One’s Best You can’t win all the time. As long as you are doing the best you can, that’s important.

Day 42:Prejudging You can’t judge a book by its cover.

Day 43:Compassion Our task must be to widen our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature of its beauty.

Day 44: Overcoming Fear The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Day 45: Contagious Humanity What’s good and right in the world is also contagious.

Day 46:Character Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action.

Day 47:Contributing Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

Day 48:Patience Patience is a virtue. No great thing is created suddenly.

Day 49:Love Love is the glue that holds the universe together.

Day 50:Brotherhood One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon.

Day 51:Laughter Mirth is God’s medicine. A day is lost if one has not laughed.

Day 52:Lightheartedness Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Day 53:

Courtesy Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

Day 54:Opportunity Every problem is an opportunity in disguise. “Difficulties make you a jewel.”

Day 55:Influencing Others Who in the world is influencing me in a positive way and why?

Day 56: Opportunity Opportunity only knocks once.