The Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Richard J. Foster

God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.

Thomas R Kelly

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

Charles Wesley

Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

Frederick Buechner

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

Becky Laird

By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us.

Joseph Fort Newton

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

John Fischer

A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life.

Mahatma Gandhi

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Simeon Ben Eleazar

Greater is he who acts from love than he who acts from fear.

Samuel Johnson

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

Fernando Flores

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.

Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

William Blake

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

John L. Motley

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

James Harvey Robinson

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.

Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and a reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Winston Churchill

It's not good enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.

Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Socrates

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

Peter F. Drucker

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Albert Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Epictetus

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Thomas Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

William Shakespeare

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Henry W. Longfellow

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

Edwin H. Chapin

Impatience never commanded success.

Jospeph Addison

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Evan Esar

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.

Earl of Beaconsfield

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Josh Billings

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.

Herbert Bayard Swope

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.

Jeremy Collier

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.

Dennis Waitley

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

Owen Feltham

The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed in these two: common-sense and PRESERVERANCE.

Aristotle Onassis

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.

A. Branson Alcott

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.

Christopher Morley

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Elbert Hubbard

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

Frank Loyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Cicero

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.

Theodore T. Hunger

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.

Euripides

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Virgil

They can because they think they can.