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- Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.
- The Buddha
- Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
- Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
- There is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- An idea is salvation by imagination.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance."
- Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
- There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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