The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
- David Starr Jordan

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
- Kevin Costner

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
- Charles Lamb

The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fall.
- Confucius

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
- Phillips Brooks

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

Because of my title I was the first to enter here. I shall be the last to go out.
- Duchesse d'Alencon, refusing help during a fire

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Making the decision to have a child - it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
- Elizabeth Stone

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
- Marcus Aurelius

The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
- William Wordsworth

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.
- Cicero

In the final analysis there is no solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
- Clare Booth Luce

The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.
- --William Mather Lewis

I believe with all my heart that civilization has produced nothing finer than a man or woman who thinks and practices true tolerance.
- -- Frank Knox

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.
- Earl Douglas Haig (1861-1928), British general and commander of the Expeditionary Force in World War I

Life's about friendships, the way you love your partner, the way you care for your children. That is what life is about. Not anything about earning a hundred zillion dollars because you toured America more than anyone else. I want life to be about creativity.
- -- Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash rock band.

None will improve your lot If you yourself do not.
- -- Bertolt Brecht, 1933

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.
- -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
- -- John Stuart Mill

The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man.
- -- W. Russell Bowie

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
- -- Henry Fielding

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
- -- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
- -- Vince Lombardi

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
- -- Edward Grey (1862-1933), British statesman

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
- American poet Robert Frost (1875-1963)

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
- -- Jack London

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
- -- Chinese proverb

Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true.
- -- Edward R. Lyman

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.
- -- Emerson

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
- -- Alistair Cooke

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
- -- John Ruskin

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it, and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.
- -- George MacDonald

The one resolution, which was in my mind long before it took the form of a resolution, is the key-note of my life. It is this, always to regard as mere impertinences of fate the handicaps which were placed upon my life almost at the beginning. I resolved that they should not crush or dwarf my soul, but rather be made to blossom, like Aaron's rod, with flowers.
- Helen Keller

Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more you bring honor to yourself.
- -- From the Decathlete

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.
- -- Emerson

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
- -- James A. Garfield

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
- -- Thomas A. Kempis

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918.

如果將字母A到Z分別編上1到26的分數（A=1,B=2...,Z=26）
你的知識（KNOWLEDGE）得到96分（11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96）
你的努力（HARDWORK）也只得到98分（8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11=98）
你的態度（ATTITUDE）才是左右你生命的全部（1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100）

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.
- -- Wang Yang-Ming

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
- -- La Bruyere

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
- -- Plato

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.
- -- Joseph Conrad

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- -- Anonymous

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
- -- Cicero

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
- -- Anotole France

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- -- George Bernard Shaw

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
- -- Nicholas Murray Butler

Children need models rather than critics.
- -- Joseph Joubert

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
- -- Washington Gladden

Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
- -- Sir William Osler

The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination.
- -- Mahatma Gandhi

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is best after all.
- -- Benjamin Spock

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- -- James Freeman Clarke

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- -- William Morrow

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- -- Arthur C. Clarke (b.1917) British science fiction writer

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
- -- Francois Fenelon

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
- Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) Russian dramatist and writer

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
- -- Joseph Joubert

There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
- -- Washington Irving

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
- -- Anonymous

What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
- -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
- -- George P. Burnham

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much can be done if we are always doing.
- -- Thomas Jefferson advising his daughter Martha, 1787.

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) British writer.

Our greatest happiness in life does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- -- Thomas Jefferson

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- -- Helen Keller

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
- -- Spurgeon

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
- -- Abraham Lincoln

He can do more for others who has done most with himself.
- -- S.D. Gordon

Are there not... Two points in the adventure of the diver: One -- when a beggar, he prepares to plunge? Two -- when a prince, he rises with his pearl? I plunge!
- -- Robert Browning

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.
- -- Charles Darwin

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.
- --Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed as a result of her investigations of Irish organized crime.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, lawyer and politician.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.
- -- Thomas Carlyle

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
- -- Robert Browning

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken, if he had brought only a part of himself to his task? The great secret of his career has been that he has flung his whole life, not a part of it, with all the determination and energy and power he could muster, into everything he has undertaken. No dillydallying, no faint-hearted efforts, no lukewarm purpose for him!
- -- Orison Sweet Marden

Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.
- -- Phillips Brooks