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