The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the great men. – Augustus Hare
The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way a man uses them. – Unknown
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. – Alfred North Whitehead
“Sometimes and under some conditions it is possible to escape from many things-from prison walls, from false friends, from bad company, from boring people, from old environments-but never from ourselves. When we lie down at night, we are there with our own thoughts-whether we like them or not. When we wake in the morning, we are still there-whether we like us or not. The most persistent thing in life (and, we have no doubt, in death also) is our own consciousness of ourselves. This being so, there is no more pitiable person than he who is uncomfortable in his own company-no matter where he runs, or how fast, or how far.” – Richard L Evans
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” – Thomas A Edison
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with an extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.” – Muhammad Ali
“None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.” – John Jay
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Stanislaus Leszczynski
“No one could endure adversity if, while it continued, it kept the same violence that its first blows had…no state is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation…it is possible to soften what is hard…and burdens will press less heavily upon those who bear them skillfully.” – Seneca
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. the longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is the power to harm us.” – Voltaire
“In the morning I brush my teeth with hope, and at night before bed I brush them with defeat. Both are mint flavored, so I try not to get them mixed up.” – Jarod Kintz, At Even One Penny, This Book Would Be Overpriced
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” – Churton Collins
“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.” – Sir John Lubbock
Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. – Thomas Carlyle
Hell is truth seen too late. – Sterling W Sill
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. – Will Rogers
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone. The dignity and nobility of his life, as well as his happiness, depend upon the direction in which that train is going, the baggage it carries, and the scenery through which it travels. – John Fort Newton
Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment and you can see forever. – Nancy Kerrigon
Defeat isn’t bitter if you don’t swallow it. Grenville Kleiser
Better keep yourself clean and bright, you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. – Thomas A Kempis
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. – George Washington
Always remember there are two types of people in this world: those who come into a room and say, Well, here I am! and those who come in and say, Ah, there you are!” – Frederick L Collins
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best, but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred. James Ellis
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran
Yesterday is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. but today, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. – K?lid?sa
When you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau
What we are is more important than what we have been – and what we can become is more important than what we are. – Dr. Brent Barlow
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. – Louis Nizer
What progress can there be for a man unconscious of his faults? Such a man has lost the fundamental element of growth, which is the realization that there is something bigger, better, and more desirable than the condition in which he now finds himself. In the soil of self-satisfaction, true growth has poor nourishment…heaven pity the man who is unconscious of fault! Pity him also who is ignorant of his ignorance! – David O McKay
What a man can imagine or conceive in his mind he can accomplish, impossibles are possible as thinking men make them so. – Henry J Kaiser