Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace
God respects me when I work, but he loves me when I sing.
- Rumi
Have less, do less, be more.
Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris
He who has learning without imagination has feet but no wings.
- Stanley Goldstein
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. – Elaine St. James
One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude.
- E. J. Conrad
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
- A. W. Tozer
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – Christopher Robin (A.A. Milne)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
- William J. H. Boetcker
The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as if nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
- Albert Einstein
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
- Hare
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
- Estonian proverb
