Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Do not think of your faults, still less of others’ faults; in every person who comes near you, look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
Ruskin.
WE are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Hazlitt.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. “
– Thomas Jefferson
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
Anton Chekhov
“To look up and not down,
To look forward and not back,
To look out and not in, and
To lend a hand.
Edward E. Hale.
