Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.
—Mike Ditka (American Sportsperson)
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
—George Horace Lorimer (American Editor)
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
—Jim Carrey (Canadian Actor)
Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of wisdom.
—Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (English Politician)
We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
—Eric Hoffer (American Philosopher)
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me.
—Henri Rousseau (French Painter)
For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
—Karlfried Graf Durckheim (German Zen Teacher)
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
—Louis Auchincloss (American Novelist, Lawyer)
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (American Jewish Rabbi)
Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be defeated.
—Sun Tzu (Chinese Military Leader)
A good friend is worth pursuing… but why would a good friend be running away?
—Ashleigh Brilliant (British Cartoonist)
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
—Fulton J. Sheen (American Catholic Religious Leader)
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” my dad would reply, “we’re raising boys.”
—Harmon Killebrew (American Baseball Player)