Most of the change we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. – Eric Hoffer
The hardest part of raising children is teaching them to ride bicycles. A father can run beside the bicycle or stand yelling directions while the child falls. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard. – Sloan Wilson
The world has no room for cowards. we must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. and yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out to your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout your coming when you return from your daily victory and defeat. – Robert Louis Stevenson
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. – Franklin D Roosevelt
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly. – Thomas Jefferson
A pupil asked a wise man how he could become a good conversationalist. The sage replied, “listen, my son.” after waiting a while, pupil said, “I am listening, please continue your instruction.” the sage smiled. “There is no more to tell.”
A man who dies too rich has lived too poorly. – Garff Goodbody
Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of youthful looks. – Charles Dickens
Facts, as such, never settled anything. They are working tools only. It is the implications that can be drawn from the facts that count, and to evaluate these requires wisdom and judgment that are unrelated to the computer approach to life. – Clarence B Randall
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. – Confucius
In the pursuit of values we discover that life is within, not outside us. – Lowell L Bennion
Much happiness is overlooked because it doesnt cost anything. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Preparation makes for leadership, and leadership is service to man. – Douglas Southall Freeman
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. – Benjamin Franklin
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. – David Starr Jordan
We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another-until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. – Richard M Nixon
Work is doing what you now enjoy for the sake of a future which you clearly see and desire. Drudgery is doing under strain what you don’t now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate. – Richard C Cabot
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – James Crook
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. – Admiral Richard Bird
I am a great believer in luck, and the harder I work the more I have of it-Stephen Leacock
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. – Anges Repplier
My definition of a leader…is a man who can persuade people to do what they don’t want to do, or do what they’re too lazy to do, and like it. – Harry S Truman
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without his thumb on the scale. – Byron Langfeld
The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touched by the thorns. – Thomas Moore
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. – Carl Jung
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, “here and now”, without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point blank. – Ortega y Gusset
Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. – Arthur Somers Roche
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. – Louis Nizer
Columbus set out to find a passage to the Indies and failed; he found America instead. Ponce de Leon looked for the fountain of youth and found Florida. The greatest explorers seem to find something other than what they are looking for.
Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon. – Mark Twain
I can see…in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a man-made world. – Hellen Keller
It is the feeling of exerting effort that exhilarates us, as a grasshopper is exhilarated by jumping. a hard job, full if impediments, is thus more satisfying than an easy job. – H L Mencken
Never despair. But if you do, work on in despair. – Edmund Burke
Recipe for greatness-to bear up under loss; to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; to be victor over anger; to smile when tears are close; to resist disease and evil men and base instincts; to hate hate and to love love; to go on when it would seem good to die; to look up with unquenchable faith in something ever more about to be. That is what any man can do, and be great. – Zane Grey
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. – Christopher Morley
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our worst enemies. – Roderick Thorp
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. – Kahlil Gibran