“Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.”

Phillips Brooks

“Learn from the mistakes of others – you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Martin Vanbee

“When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action, choose the bolder.”

W. J. Slim

“God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.”

William Shakespeare

“Progress results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.”

Russell W. Davenport

“There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.”

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”

William Blake

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

Charles Kingsley

“How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”

Henry David Thoreau

“‎…from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

Abraham Lincoln