1. Community Leadership Enhancement Project Southwestern Indiana Development Council (SWIDC)

2. 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

3. SWIDC Southwest Indiana Development Council SWIDC PO Box 953 Evansville, IN 47706 Phone: 812-547-8377 Fax: 812-547-8378 WEB: www.swidc.org EMAIL: Info@swidc.org

4. SWIDC: Southwest Indiana Development Council SWIDC is an economic development organization comprised of representatives of thirteen counties in Southwest Indiana www.swidc.org

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

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

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

8. “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

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

10. “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

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

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

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

14. “Talk does not cook rice.” -Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. “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