Excuses

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

-- Benjamin Franklin

Love

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

-- Morrie Schwartz

Liberty

"Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security."

-- Benjamin Franklin

Life

"What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?"

-- T.S. Eliot

Life

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

Love

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."

-- Mother Teresa

Indecision

"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."

-- Alfred Korzybski

Strength

"What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Endurance

"Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope."

-- Romans 5:3-4

Endurance

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.”

-- Albert Einstein

Goals

"It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise."

--  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character

"Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny."

-- George Dana Boardman

Perseverance

"The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success."

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie

Fear

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

-- Seneca

Love

"If you wished to be loved, love."

-- Seneca 
 

Gifts

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."

-- Seneca

Fear

"It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'"

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Direction

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."

-- Yogi Berra

Success

"The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter."

--  Lee Iacocca 

 

Opportunity

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

--Francis Bacon

Character

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."

-- Thomas Paine

Dreams

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.   Live the life you have imagined."

-- Henry David Thoreau  

Perseverance

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

-- Seneca 

Friendship

"Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment."

-- Seneca

Attitude

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

-- Winston Churchill

Opportunity

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

-- Winston Churchill

Politics

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

-- Plato

Self

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche