Be not like those who honor their gods in prosperity and curse them in adversity. In pleasure or pain, give thanks!
-Mekhilta on Exodus 20.20
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
-Abraham Lincoln
Circumstances are beyond the control of man; but his conduct is in his own power.
-Benjamin Disraeli, English statesman and novelist (1804-81)
The fear of God kills all other fears.
-Hugh Black
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
-Dale Carnegie
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
-Carl Bard
Do not despise any person, and do not consider anything impossible, for there is no person who does not have an hour and no thing that does not have its place.
-Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) 4:3
Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
-Jewish proverb
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
-Maimonides
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one yourself.
James Anthony Froude
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
I have learned from experience that
the greater part of our happiness or misery
depends on our dispositions
and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your heart.
-Chinese Proverb
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.
-Billy Graham
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
The Chofetz Chaim said, “Before a person talks, he owns the words. Once a person speaks, however, the words own him.”
" If u dont have dreams,then you will work for those who have dreams "