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