"All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us long and long ago." - Rudyard Kipling

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." - H. G. Wells

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time." - Saint Francis de Sales

"He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it." - Pierre Charron

"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger

"You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are." - Anna Quindlen

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice." - Cherokee Expression

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

Be mindful what you toss away, be careful what you push away, and think hard before walking away." - Anonymous

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify." - Henry David Thoreau

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." - Niels Bohr

"Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot." - Clarence Thomas

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." - Henry J. Kaiser

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it." - Dennis P. Kimbro

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time." - Anna Freud

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." - Aristotle

"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - General George S. Patton

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." - John Adams

"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather

"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James

"DO NOT make someone a priority in your life if you are ONLY an option in theirs." - Unknown

"All that I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her." - George Washington

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other." - Chinese Proverb

"You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself." - H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities." - Napoleon Hill

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm." - Colette

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"Time sets the stage; fate writes the script; but only we may choose our character." - Liam Thomas Ryder

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut