…we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
Quotes
Thomas A. Edison
The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense.
W. H. Auden
Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.
J.E. Buckrose
To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again – this is the brave and happy life.
Herodotus
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly
J.B. Priestley
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic
Thomas Szasz
The self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Chick Corea
I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions, intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find…that truth is basically simple – and feels
John C. Bogle
Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.
Charles B. Newcomb
Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.