No man was ever wise by chance.

~ Seneca

It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get back up. 

~ Vince Lombardi

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. 

~ Marie Curie

I now believe this without question: Income, position, the opinions of one’s friends, the judgments of one’s peers, and all the other traditional criteria by which human beings are judged are for the birds. The only question is — can you hang on through the crap they throw at you and not lose your freedom or your good sense.

~ James Michener

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. 

~ Jane Addams

It is never to late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot (pen name of Mary Anne Evans)

I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

 ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be resolved and the thing is done.

~ Chinese Proverb

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

God has made the back to the burden.

~ William Cobbett

Life is not the way it is supposed to be. It is the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

~ Virginia Satir

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

~ Carl Jung

I heard a bird sing
in the dark of December.
A magical thing
and sweet to remember.

“We are nearer to Spring
than we were in September.”

~ Oliver Herford

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire…give us the tools and we will finish the job. 

~ Winston Churchill

If you’re going through hell, keep going. 

~ Winston Churchill

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

~ Latin Proverb

Audentes fortuna iuvat (fortune favors the bold). 

~ Virgil