Determined efforts are better than a miracle.
—Tonbo
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
—Stan Randall (Canadian Businessperson)
It is the beautiful bird that gets caged.
—Chinese Proverb
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death.|Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death.|Love is Life, Hatred is Death.
—Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu Mystic)
The most decisive actions of our life—I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future—are, more often than not, unconsidered.
—Andre Gide (French Novelist)
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
—Elbert Hubbard (American Writer)
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
—Barack Obama (American Head of State)
Courage is sustained by calling up anew the vision of the goal.
—Antonin Sertillanges
Since we must all die sooner or later, let us enjoy life while we can.
—Otomo no Tabito
Virtue is an angel; but she is a blind one and must ask of knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal. Mere knowledge, on the other hand, like a Swiss mercenary, is ready to combat either in the ranks of sin or under the banners of righteousness—ready to forge cannon balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair’s vessel or a missionary ship.
—Horace Mann (American Educator)