The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
* Henry Ward Beecher
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn of falsehoods.
* Robert A. Heinlein
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
* Marquis de Sade
My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.
* Thomas Jefferson
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.
* Turkish Proverb
The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.
* Thomas Edison
Doing what is right isn’t the problem; it’s knowing what is right.
* Lyndon B. Johnson
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
* Henry Ward Beecher
We need a new ethos of greater responsibility and caring.
* Hillary Rodham Clinton
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
* William James
