Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
Don’t worry about knowing people—just make yourself worth knowing.
—Unknown
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein (German-born Theoretical Physicist)
Rain-water never stands on high ground, but runs down to the lowest level. So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly, but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.
—Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Indian Hindu Philosopher)
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
—William Shakespeare (British Playwright)
It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required.
—Winston Churchill (British Head of State)
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
—Annie Besant (British-born Indian Theosophist)
Play is the exultation of the possible.
—Martin Buber
The Spirit filled all with his radiance.|He is incorporeal and invulnerable, pure and untouched by evil.|He is the supreme seer and thinker, immanent and transcendent.|He placed all things in the path of the Eternal.
—The Upanishads
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved.
—Thomas Carlyle (Scottish Writer)
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
—Marion G. Romney (American Mormon Religious Leader)
You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
—Marcia Wieder