"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

e e cummings (1894 - 1962)

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)

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

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)

"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

Joan Didion (1934 - )

"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)

“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."

Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."

George Eliot (1819 - 1880)

"The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams. The oak sleeps in the acorn."

James Allen (1864-1912)

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)

"Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."

T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)

"I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success."

Michael Jordan (1963 - )

"We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try."

Tom Clancy (1947 - )

"Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose."

George Lucas (1944 - )

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."

Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be
fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."

John Barth (1930 - )

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)

"Dare to be yourself."

Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)

"Truth is the only safe ground to stand on."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

Al Franken (1951- )

"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."

Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)