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
Thursday, October 30, 2003
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
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
- -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue.
- -- Plato
Monday, October 27, 2003
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
Sunday, October 26, 2003
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- -- Anonymous
Saturday, October 25, 2003
Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.
- -- Cicero
Friday, October 24, 2003
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
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
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
Monday, October 20, 2003
It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."
- -- Washington Gladden
Sunday, October 19, 2003
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
Saturday, October 18, 2003
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
Friday, October 17, 2003
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
Thursday, October 16, 2003
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
- -- James Freeman Clarke
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- -- William Morrow
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
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
Monday, October 13, 2003
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
- -- Francois Fenelon
Sunday, October 12, 2003
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
Friday, October 10, 2003
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
- -- Joseph Joubert
Thursday, October 09, 2003
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
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength.
- -- Anonymous
Tuesday, October 07, 2003
What you can do, or think you can, begin it.
- -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Monday, October 06, 2003
"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has accomplished wonders.
- -- George P. Burnham
Sunday, October 05, 2003
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.
Saturday, October 04, 2003
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.
Friday, October 03, 2003
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
Thursday, October 02, 2003
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- -- Helen Keller
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
- -- Spurgeon