• Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.
-Rabindranath Tagore

• Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-Elbert Hubbard

• Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd...and never well mended.
-Benjamin Franklin

• God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him.
-Anonymous

• Great character is the cumulative result when great pain and great disappointment intersect in a man with a teachable spirit.

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Albert Einstein

• Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
-Henry Ward Beecher

• Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
-Thomas Jefferson

• Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
-Jean Kerr

• "The money’s no better in retirement but the hours are!"
-Anonymous

• "When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking."
-Gail Sheehy

• Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
-Henry Ford

• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
-Wilfred A Peterson

• The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
-Ayn Rand

• It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
-Rollo May

• I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
-Michael Jordan

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby

• If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies within yourself.
-Tecumseh

• It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

• To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
-Samuel Johnson

• The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
-Gail Sheehy

• Let your heart be awakened to the transforming power of gratefulness.
-Sarah Ban Breathnach

• Life can only be understood backward. It must be lived forward.
-Soren Kierkegaard

• My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
-Henry Ford

• No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
-Abraham Lincoln

• One of the best ways to persuade others is by listening to them.
-Dean Rusk

• Opportunity is missed by most people because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-Thomas Edison

• Our greatest glory is not in never falling...but in rising every time we fall.
-Confucius

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

• Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
-Jim Rohn

• Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
-John Ruskin

• Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
-Robert Louis Stevenson

• Reputation is what you are supposed to be; character is what you are.

• Reputation is what you need to get a job; character is what you need to keep it.

• Reputation makes you rich or poor; character makes you happy or miserable.

• Self-discipline is when you tell yourself to do something and you don't talk back.
-W. K. Hope

• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
-Plutarch

• Sincerity makes the least man to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
-Charles Spurgeon

• Success is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.
-Bill Gates

• Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
-Coach John Wooden

• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
-Mother Teresa

• The world of achievement has always belonged to the optimist.
-Harold Wilkins

• Temptation usually comes in through a door that has been deliberately left open.
-Arnold Glasow

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller

• The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
-Julius Charles Hare

• The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.
-Junius

• The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
-Theodore Rubin

• Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students.

• Troubles are tools by which God fashions us for better things.
-Henry Ward Beecher

• When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
-Billy Graham