Press on. Nothing can take the place of perseverance.  Talent will not.  Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.  Genius will not.  Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.  Education will not.  The world is full of educated derelicts.  Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.  The slogan "press on" has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race   -  Calvin Coolidge
	Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy - Winston Churchill
	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! - Winston Churchill
	Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - Winston Churchill
	The secret of success is constancy of purpose - Benjamin Disraeli
	A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials - Chinese Proverb
	Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence  - Albert Einstein
	Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts - Albert Einstein
	It is only to the individual that a soul is given - Albert Einstein
	Big changes usually happen through a series of smaller steps, and big decisions are taken only after intermediate steps are tried and found wanting - Brad Sester
	There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction - John F. Kennedy
	[The common man] pursues a small present good, which will be followed by a great [often unforeseen] evil to come, while the [the wise man searches for and] pursue[s] a great good to come - at the risk of a small present evil - Frederic Bastiat
	The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken - Warren Buffett
	If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything - Anonymous
	Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value - Albert Einstein
	Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today - James Dean
	I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived - Henry Thoreau
	On the eve of your last day on earth, you will finally have no pressures.  But . . . you will also have no time . . . to know what freedom is . . to know how a free man works or plays.  No time to know [yourself.  Don't wait, start now!] - W. Timothy Gallwey
	Commit random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty - Unknown
	The key to winning any battle has less to do with those things that happen around (you) than with those changes that take place on the inside - Erin Brockovich
	The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without - Ralph Waldo Emerson
	A man's character is his fate  - Heraclitus
	Who you are shouts so loudly in my ears that I cannot hear a word you are saying - Ralph Waldo Emerson
	When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always - M.K. Gandhi
	The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice - Martin Luther King, Jr.
	They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong. There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right  - Ronald Reagan
	Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings  - John F. Kennedy
	The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were - John F. Kennedy
	Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected - M.K. Gandhi
	There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. - the voice of conscience, even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more a separation from friends, from family, from the state to which you may belong, from all which you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being. - M.K. Gandhi
	The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy  - Martin Luther King, Jr.
	All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing -  Edmund Burke
	The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits -- not animals.  [This . . .] whether we like it or not, spells duty - Winston Churchill
	Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. - Vaclav Havel
	The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature - so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to candor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, or an anguished spirit - George Santayana
	For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? - Matthew the Apostle
	There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world.  It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. - Henry Van Dyke
	We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked throughout the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way - Viktor Frankl

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