Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.- F.W. Faber

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

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.- George Sand

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

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities, and to make the most of one's resources.- Vauvenargues

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

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.
- William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.- William Jennings Bryan

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.


- English proverb

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

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

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

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
- Isaac Newton

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

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

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
- Charles Lamb

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

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

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

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

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.- -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918.

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

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.- -- Cicero

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

Attitude determines altitude.- -- Unknown

Many things in life will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart...pursue those.

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.- Helen Keller

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.

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

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

Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.- Thomas Paine