The world is good-natured to people who are good natured.
- William Makepeace Thackeray

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- William Shakespeare

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.
- Nixon Waterman

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
- Wilma Askinas

In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous

He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.
- Epictetus

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
- Gandhi

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind with a tender heart.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes

The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it -- every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
- John D. Rockefeller III

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
- Irene Kassorla

Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
- Herbert Kaufman

Life is not holding a good hand; Life is playing a poor hand well.
- Danish proverb

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
- Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), British theologian and classicist

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
- Donald A. Adams

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.
- Janet Erskine Stuart