What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (Indian Hindu Political leader)
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
—J. M. Barrie (Scottish Novelist)
Justice advances with such languid steps that crime often escapes from its slowness. Its tardy and doubtful course causes many tears to be shed.
—Pierre Corneille (French Dramatist)
Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Philosopher)
Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it’s a matter of inspiration.
—Jim Rohn (American Entrepreneur)
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
—Leo Tolstoy (Russian Novelist)
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
—Lyndon B. Johnson (American Head of State)
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
—Louis L’Amour
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
—Aldous Huxley (English Humanist)
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
—H. G. Wells (British Novelist)
See that your character is right, and in the long run your reputation will be right.
—Charles Caleb Colton (English Angelic Priest)
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
—Albert Camus (Algerian-born French Philosopher)
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
—George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright)