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