Community Leadership Enhancement Project Southwestern Indiana Development Council (SWIDC)

Community Leadership Enhancement Program A grant from Indiana Rural Regional Partnership Grant from the Indiana Rural Development Council A grant from Indiana Rural Regional Partnership Grant from the Indiana Rural Development Council Grant Recipient Organization: Southwest Indiana Development Council

SWIDC Southwest Indiana Development Council SWIDC PO Box 953 Evansville, IN Phone: Fax: WEB:

SWIDC: Southwest Indiana Development Council SWIDC is an economic development organization comprised of representatives of thirteen counties in Southwest Indiana

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas Edison

“Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.” -Henry Ford

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” -William James

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” -Abraham Lincoln

“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” -Benjamin Mays

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” -Vince Lombardi

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” -General George Patton

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” -Henry Ford

“Talk does not cook rice.” -Chinese Proverb

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” -George Halas

The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it is open.” -Unknown

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” -Harry S. Truman

“Success is a journey, not a destination.” -Unknown

“The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.” -Rossabeth Moss Cantor

“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” -Beverly Sills

“Successful people and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary greatly in their desire to reach their potential.” -John Maxwell

“You must do the very thing you think you cannot.” -Eleanor Roosevelt

“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.” -Benjamin Disraeli

“The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we have is now.” -Bill Cosby

“Courage – not complacency – is our need today. Leadership not salesmanship.” -John F. Kennedy

“The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our circumstances.” -Martha Washington

“When everything is falling apart, it is a good sign everything is about to come together.” -Henriette Anne Klauser

“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people.” -John Adams

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.” -Moliere

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I have.” -Thomas Jefferson

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” -George Eliot

“Don’t water your weeds.” -Harvey Mackay

“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog – the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.” -Corrie Ten Boom