We’ve all got to go to school, I expect, and we don’t all get the same lesson to learn, but the one we do
Rose Terry Cooke
Quotes
From the Decathlete
Ask not for victory, ask for courage. For if you can endure you bring honor to us all, even more you bring honor to
Thomas a Kempis
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me
James A. Garfield
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, it is the
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great heart will no more complain of the obstructions that make success hard, than of the iron walls of the gun which hinder
Thomas Carlyle
Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of
Thomas Carlyle
Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of
Sir William Osler
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry
Washington Gladden
It is better to say, ‘This one thing I do’ than to say, ‘These forty things I dabble in.’
William Shakespeare
What’s gone, and what’s past help, Should be past grief.