Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de Tocqueville
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Charles Darwin
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Robert Quillen
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
Joseph Addison
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Eric Hoffer
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.
John M. McHugh
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
Josh Billings
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Daniel Webster
He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.
Elbert Hubbard
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
