Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.- Thomas H. Huxley

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.- W.J. Slim

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

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott

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

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.- Elizabeth Bibesco

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

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.- Daniel Webster

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.- -- Charles Caleb Colton

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in circumstances confronting him.- St. Thomas Aquinas

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.- -- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.- -- Mike Ditka

The important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.- -- Baron de Coubertin, The Olympic Creed

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.- -- Chinese proverb

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

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

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.- -- Anotole France

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.- Emiliano Zapata

Attitude determines altitude.- -- Unknown

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator....When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers...I appreciate where we've come from.- -- Julian Simon

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.- -- Patrick Henry, speech to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775

Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.- Minot Simons

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.- Robert Louis Stevenson

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.- - Henry Ward Beecher

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.- Louisa May Alcott

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.- William James

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.- Knute Rockne

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.- Epictetus

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. - Thomas Paine

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.- Ruth McKenney

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.- Thomas H. Huxley

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder.- W.J. Slim