"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." - Elton Trueblood

"The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations." - George Santayana

"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." - Epicurus

"Strike not only while the iron is hot, make the iron hot by striking it." - Oliver Cromwell

"Laws are like spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape." - Solon

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins." - Benjamin Franklin

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." - Mark Twain

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." - Ezra Pound

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." - Robert Frost

"If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it." - Zenrin

"The best things in life are not things." - John Ruskin

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor." - Victor Hugo

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." - Jim Rohn

"Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world." - Ralph B. Perry

"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up." - Les Brown

"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness." - Pearl S. Buck

"'Come to the edge,' He said.  They said, 'We are afraid.'  'Come to the edge,'  He said.  They came.  He pushed them... and they flew." - Guillaume Apollinaire

"What the superior man seeks is in himself: what the small man seeks is in others." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

"What you keep to yourself you lose, what you give away, you keep forever." - Munthe

""The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself." - Mark Caine

""Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories." - Abraham Lincoln

"Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe." - St. Augustine

"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed." - Sydney Smith

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." - Joan Baez

"Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets." - Clark Moustakas

"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." - Mary Cholmondeley

"There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate." - Croesus

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory." - Pierre Corneille

"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men..." - Herman Melville

"He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole." - Eustachius

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." - Roger Bannister

"The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover." - Joseph Addison

"One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen." - Marvel Bell

"The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." - Robert H. Schuller

"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it." - Malcolm X

"To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone." - David Joseph Schwartz

"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high." - Fiona Macleod

"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us." - Parks Cousins

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before." - Herodotus

"Faith is a higher faculty than reason." - Henry Christopher Bailey

"Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present." - Bill Keane

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest." - Henry David Thoreau

"Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control." - Natasha Josefowitz

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." - Henry David Thoreau

"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work." - Kahlil Gibran

"We know better than we do. We do not yet possess ourselves..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For all your days prepared, And meet them ever alike; When you are the anvil, bear; When you are the hammer, strike." - Edwin Markham