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- A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
- Author Unknown
- If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life - if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
- Walter Scott
- Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
- Foster C. McClellan
- If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
- A. P. Gouthey
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
- Basil W. Maturin
- Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
- Richard Bach
- To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
- Abbie M. Dale
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