"Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come,
the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for
us to long for is the goodness, not the glory."
-- F.W. Faber

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to
keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want
things."
-Randy Pausch

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach
them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to
follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't
courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

"Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it."
-- George Eliot (1819-1880)

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to
do."
-- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher

"Blessed is he who carries within himself a God, an ideal, and obeys
it."
-- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

"The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it, and once
you've seen it, keeping quiet and saying nothing, becomes as political
an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way you are
accountable".
- Arundhati Roy

"Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone; he also struck out more
often than anyone."
-- Anonymous

"He who cares wins."

"I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin
where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are
perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be
the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the
fight are at my disposal."
-- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) English Novelist

"The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be
in reality what we would appear to be."
-- Socrates (469-399 BC)