﻿Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.-- Oprah Winfrey
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.-- Helen Keller
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.-- James Allen
Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any. -- Danielle Fotopoulis
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.-- Denis Waitley
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.-- Christiane Northrup
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.-- Helen Keller
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.-- Stephen Grellet
If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can create a brilliant history of triumph that will shine forever. That is what makes life so exciting and enjoyable. In any field of endeavour, those who overcome hardships and grow as human beings are advancing towards success and victory in life. -- Daisaku Ikeda
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.-- Henry David Thoreau
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.-- Albert Camus
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.-- Ralph Waldo 
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference. -- Jenny Craig
Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.-- Daisaku Ikeda
Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.-- Elbert Hubbard
Taking action is how you GIVE your gift and live a life of true service to yourself and others. And that doesn't mean that your life's work has to be something that seems grand and noble. The real key to being of service and living your purpose is simply to do what you LOVE to do -- whatever it may be.-- Rebecca Fine
The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.-- James Allen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.-- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.-- Amelia Earhart
Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things. -- Napoleon Hill
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.-- Mark Twain
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.-- Steve Jobs
Veni vidi vici (I came I saw I conquered, 100-44 BC) Julius Caesar.
Lay down our weapons? If you want them, come and get them. (480 BC) King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial. (495-429 BC) Pericles.
I know nothing save the fact of my own ignorance. (469 399 BC) Socrates.
We make war that we can live in peace. (384-322 BC) Aristotle.
There is nothing impossible to those willing to try. (356-323 BC) Alexander the Great.
Laws are silent in times of war. (106-43 BC) Cicero.
A poem is like a painting. (65-8 BC) Horace.
Courage is knowing what not to fear. (429-347 BC) Plato.
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. (106-43 BC) Cicero.
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone can see it. (551-479 BC) Confucius.
Know thyself. (640-546 AD) Thales.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it. (born circa 460 BC) Thucydides.
Great deeds are often wrought at great risks. (484-430 BC) Herodotus.
A man should be upright, not kept upright. (121-180 BC) Marcus Aurelius.
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambition. (121-180 BC) Marcus Aurelius.
Do not dwell in the past; do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (circa 563-483 BC) Gautama Buddha.
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (Prime Minister of the UK, 1979-1990) Margret Thatcher.
A lie cannot live. (1929-1968) Martin Luther King jnr.
Democracy is the path to socialism. (1818-1883) Karl Marx.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger. (1844-1900) Fredrich Nietzsche.
I used to say of him (Napoleon) that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. (1769-1852) Arthur Wellesley, The First Duke of Wellington.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (1757-1827) William Blake.
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. (1969-1948) Ghandi.
We few, we happy few we band of brothers. (1598) William Shakespeare, St Crispin Days Speech, Henry 5th.
we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. (1940) Winston Churchill, Speech in the Houses of Parliament.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. (1854-1900) Oscar Wilde.
Be sincere, be brief, be seated. (1882-1945) Franklin D Roosevelt.
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I've made. (1882-1945) Franklin D Roosevelt.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. (1874-1965) Winston Churchill.
Be faithful in small things as it is in them where your strength lies. (1912-1997) Mother Teresa.
I can stand out the war with any man. (1820-1910) Florence Nightingale.
