Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

-Soren Kierkegaard

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

-Thomas Fuller

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

-Charles Spurgeon

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

-Anonymous

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?

-Sai Baba

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk ( Read more... )

Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it.

- James Buckham

What is beautiful is not always good, but what is good is always beautiful.
-Unknown

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
-Sydney Smith

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
-Arnold Glasgow