Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
– Doris M. Smith

The kiss of the sun
For pardon
The song of the birds
For mirth
One is nearer God's
Heart in a garden,
Than anywhere else on earth.
Author Unknown

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
– Abraham Lincoln

Learning and liberty march hand in hand, or they do not march at all: the one is the condition of the other.
– Hartley Shawcross

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
– Confucius

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of this ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
– Confucius

For truth and duty it is ever the fitting time; who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
– Martin Luther

They can conquer who believe they can.
– William Dryden

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
– Benjamin Disraeli

A little consideration of what takes place around us every day would show us that a higher law than that of our will regulates events; that only in our easy simple spontaneous action are we strong, and by contenting ourselves with obedience we become divine.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Act as though everything you do, rightly or wrongly, accurately or carelessly, may tip the scale of the bigger things of tomorrow for all of us, and indeed every act, potentially, can. Remember: Enemies try to break through at the weakest point. Don’t let it be on your sector.
– L. G. Elliott

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave you will be sleeping enough.
– Benjamin Franklin

Iron rust from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
– Leonardo Da Vinici

It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.
– Horace Mann

Whatever you do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Put a grain of boldness in everything you do.
– Baltasar Gracian

It is better by a noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate, than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.
– Herodotus

By audacity, great fears are conquered.

Both fortune and low befriend the bold.
– Ovid

Only the bold get to the top.
– Publilius Surus

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
– Cicero [63 B. C.]

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
– Malcolm Forbes

Character is not made in a crisis – it is only exhibited.
– Robert Freeman

Character is destiny.
– Heraclitus

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt

You cannot speak of an ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.
– Chuang- Tzu

It takes wisdom and courage to create – it takes faith and courage to prove.
– Owen D. Young

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
– John Quincy Adams

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
— Sydney J. Harris: Was a journalist and lecturer

It’s the reason you spend every day striving to learn more:
A) To achieve more with regard to your career, your success, and your wealth
B) To share with your children, your friends, and your family
C) To grow as a person as you discover more about the universe
D) All of the above.

The day you know this answer is the day you discover your insatiable appetite to learn and to better your future.
Win Wenger

If you are one of those people who believes that hard work and honesty alone will bring riches, perish the thought. It is not true! Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work… IDEAS are the beginning of ALL FORTUNES.
~ Napoleon Hill

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