If you just keep playing, keep believing and have some faith, something good can happen.
- Washington Redskins coach Norv Turner, whose team became only the second in NFL history to win six games after losing the first seven games of the year. December 19, 1998

...have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.
- Harold E. Stassen

Beauty, truth, friendship, love, creation - these are the great values of life. We can't prove them, or explain them, yet they are the most stable things in our lives.
- Jesse Herman Holmes

No obstacles fell in his way that seemed to him insurmountable. He might be defeated, as he sometimes was, but he shrank from no hardship through impatience, he fled from no danger through cowardice.
- J. P. Morgan writing about Napoleon Bonaparte

I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.
- Publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in a letter to his son.

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out into the world and doing something original.
- Tom Morris, from his book 'If Aristotle Ran General Motors'

It teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity.
- General Douglas MacArthur, on the virtues of competitive athletics.

I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.
- Final words of Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaire traveler aboard the ill-fated Titanic. As the boat began to sink Guggenheim changed into formal dress and calmly faced death.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
- - Henry Ford

I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.
- Glen Seaborg

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good qualities.
- John Richelsen

Patience is passion tamed.

- Lyman Abbott

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- - George Bernard Shaw

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.
- Glenn Clark

So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the human race.
- Ernest L. Woodward

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this?
- - Epictitus

The happy people are those who are producing something; the bored people are those who are consuming much and producing nothing.
- - William Ralph Inge

The sign of intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
- Marya Mannes

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Anonymous

Courtesy is simply doing unto others what you would like them to do unto you.
- Anonymous

Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
- Euripides

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
- William F. Scolavino

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Marcus Aurelius

What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
- Johann von Goethe