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David Bruce Smith, author and publisher

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“Author and publisher David Bruce Smith* has a bachelor’s degree in American Literature from George Washington University, and a master’s in journalism from New York University. During the past twenty years he has been a real estate executive and the Editor-in-Chief/ Publisher of Crystal City Magazine.

Smith has written 11 books: “In Many Arenas,” • “13 Young Men, Tennessee,” • “Three Miles From Providence,” • “Conversations with Papa Charlie,” • “Afternoon Tea with Mom,” • “Letters to My Children,” • “Building the Community,” • “Continuum,” • “Building My Life,” • and his most recent, “American Hero: John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.

His company David Bruce Smith Publications, specializes in creating, designing, and composing limited-edition books on a variety of subjects: authors, historic figures, artists, and leaders. Several are about the amazing life-story of real estate developer and philanthropist Charles E. Smith. David Bruce Smith Publications is committed to educating young children through books, literature and historic sites.

In January 2014 he launched the The Grateful American™ Series — an interactive, multi-media program designed to restore enthusiasm in American history for children.

For more information, visit davidbrucesmith.com.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”

– Gandi

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

– Andrew Carnegie

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”

– Brian Tracy

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”

– W.E.B. Du Bois

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”

– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey