"Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

-- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

-- Herbert Kaufman

"Courage to start and willingness to keep everlasting at it are the requisites for success."

-- Alonzo Newton Benn

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you."
~ (Maya Angelou)

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

-- J.B. Priestly (1894-1984)

"Listen to your hopes instead of your fears."
~ Michelle Obama

"All high achievers plan their work and work their plan, for they are keenly aware that "luck" is most often being prepared to take advantage of a situation."

-- Unknown

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

-- Longfellow

"One thing I have learned in a long life: All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have."

~ Albert Einstein

"People prefer to believe what they prefer to be true."
-Sir Francis Bacon

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
~ Albert Einstein

"No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
~ Albert Einstein

"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."

~ Albert Einstein

"Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle."

-- Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) Russian Novelist

Worth repeating...

"The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light."

~ Felix Adler

"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom."

~ Albert Einstein

"He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made."

-- Henry B. Wilson

"If I give you a pfennig, you will be one pfennig richer and I'll be one pfennig poorer. But if I give you an idea, you will have a new idea, but I shall still have it, too."

~ Albert Einstein

"If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
~ Albert Einstein

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)